An accurate observation of a crucial factual misrepresentation in the article. There is no point in "engaging" European politicians that believe that states like Iran, Iraq, North Korea, Zimbabwe, Somolia, ect. (incomplete list) or their leaders deserve respect, consideration or deference.
The U.S. should simply inform them that the U.S. WILL be nationally sovereign, and act in the best interests of the U.S. and its citizens. Any attempt to oppose this will be dealt with. The Euros can get on board now or when their Muslim immigrants force their hand, their choice.
Despite earlier dismissals, the latest reports on the anthrax sent to the U.S. Capitol suggest a sophistication exceeding anything seen in now-defunct U.S. and Soviet biological weapons programs. And the FBI has been sitting on evidence that one of the hijackers was treated for what the physician now believes was cutaneous anthrax
First, the U.S. bioweapon program is not defunct. It has been proceeding apace since Nixon's public and hypocritical announcement we were ending it.It is not reasonable to assume that the U.S. state of the art has not progressed since 1970.
We have only one unconfirmed news report (repeated ad nausium in the media) that the mailed anthrax is any more technilogically advanced than the one trillion spores per gram the U.S. (alone) had in 1970. And that report was deliberately vague about how it was more advanced.
Also one would have to believe that our best testing methods were not used in the orignal assay that announced the anthrax was identical to the 1970 U.S. military anthrax. Or did we suddenly in several months upgrade our testing ability ?
Secondly, the Florida physician, after coaching and coaxing by government officials, finally relented and said it might have been anthrax.
In my opionion, this is disinformation intended as part of the propaganda campaign to generate public support for attacking Iraq. There may very well be good reasons for a preemptive strike against Iraq, but the anthrax attack is not yet one of them.