[cooper72]

and the trends of what I see going on there today is more than a little disturbing.

The trends you yourself have no experience of and pick up third or fourth hand?

[Colosis]

Goodbye to Ivan ping...

[jpl]

The trends you yourself have no experience of and pick up third or fourth hand?

Friend, I just call 'em like I see 'em.

I have no beef whatsoever with Tony Blair and I sincerely hope that the U.S. and the U.K. will remain strong allies, but the next year or two is going to be quite telling. If the French voters pass the E.U. constitution and Britain allows itself to get absorbed in, and if Blair ends up getting bounced out for someone even further to the left, it's quite likely that our alliance will just drift apart. I sincerely hope that none of these things will happen, but patronizing me doesn't change simple basic facts that anyone can learn simply by reading and paying attention to what's going on.