A year on, it is astonishing how quickly memory has faded in some quarters, and moral clarity yielded to cowardly evasion. In the immediate aftermath of September 11, the world united in its recognition of something appalling and new: unimaginable vulnerabilities had been exposed, and the rule book ripped up. America swore to pre-empt further attacks, and the world nodded. "We are all Americans," declared an editorial in Le Monde - scarcely a journal known for its supine Atlanticism. Now, however, as battle with Iraq draws closer, the nodding has stopped. From the densely populated moral high ground one can...