So what's Berlescuni gonna do? In largly Catholic Italy? Take the chance on riots in his streets if he sits by , does nothing and we all get to watch those women beheaded on Al-Jazeera?
He'd be lucky not to be shot in the street if that happened.
And he has been our friend.
The man was between the rock and the hard place IMHO.
So he coughed up.
Yes, the women are bad.
And now Italy is turning her back on them with contempt.
I agree, tiamat. I also question if Eupeans truly are "overwhelmingly" anti-Bush, as another poster stated. It could be another media-made illusion, like the one we have here in the U.S., where the media are far out of touch with regular people. I think Italy did the right thing in bailing the Simonas out, and Italians are doing the right thing now by during their backs on them in disgust.