caffe latte con sublime insights

Quaffing lattes with Doctor Barn in the Costa cafe.
"Hey," quoth the brother. "I heard George Bush making a speech this morning admitting he was wrong about tons of things. Does that mean that you're now going to admit to having been wrong about him?"
I eyed a circling Polish waitress keenly.
She passed by in gentle flight.
"This is what I'll admit," I told Daktari. "I'll admit I think President Bush is a great President. He's human though. And he wants to be liked. This desire to be liked might be a weakness. Personally I think we can forgive him for it. I've heard him apologise before for using strong language. I would always have advised him against apologising. Because the right sort of people don't want an apology. And the wrong sort of people will misuse one. His main ally in the War On Terror was Prime Minister Tony Blair and Blair never liked the more bellicose statements. So President Bush toned down the rhetoric initially for that reason. I would have told him to keep it up. You don't ask the Nazis for permission to go to war against them with all guns blazing. You don't ask Churchill to tone down his Fight Them On The Beaches speech. I'm saying that from the start our own media groups were trying to break the will of America and Britain and the Free World. They are the ones who should be apologising. It was insane to criticise President Bush for laying down the gauntlet to Muslim terrorists. Insane. I'll tell you more of what I admit. On the eve of the liberation of Iraq, I was asked by a group of school teachers at the Community College in the town of Athy whether I thought the Americans would find weapons of mass destruction or not. I said I didn't care. I said that all I cared about was that Saddam Hussein and his government of murderers were about to be destroyed. I have not changed my opinion. I think the Americans have behaved heroically in both Iraq and Afghanistan. But the world has failed to back them. We're all going to pay for that. Muslim terror could have been defeated if we'd all stood against it. It could have been blasted back into the sand traps which gave birth to it. Iran and Syria could have been placed under international interdict for their sponsorship of Al Qaeda. Iran could have been repudiated for its ambitions to start nuclear war. Syria could have been held accountable for its assassination of Lebanon's Prime Minister. Both could have been democratised. Al Qaeda could have been wiped out in the caves of Pakistan. The momentum was there after the Americans freed Iraq and Afghanistan. Not to be. The world wanted to go back to business as usual. In Britain the Conservative Party failed to back their Socialist rival Mr Blair, seeking instead short term political advantage from the situation in Iraq. Ironically enough Mr Blair was finally ousted by a Man Who Would Be King from within his own party. But not before the same Mr Blair had confounded every opinion poll by winning three elections in a row. The will was there among ordinary people to win this thing. We have been failed by our media groups, by our pseudo intellectual elites, and by our political classes. Do you think Al Qaeda didn't notice that the American Democratic Party was willing to criminalise Mr Bush? Do you think they haven't been revitalised by that fact? There are 4000 Al Qaeda members wandering around Britain today being tailed by British Intelligence. Being tailed. Not interned. Not executed. Not even arrested. Being tailed. The biggest threat to the life of a Jihadi in Britain is that he'll die laughing. The same applies to Al Qaeda Jihadi networks in Ireland, Canada, America, Western Europe and Australia. The irony is screaming. In World War Two enemy nationals were rounded up for the duration. Today the Jihadi's are collecting their Unemployment Benefit and then meeting for coffee in the nice comfy Starbucks at Piccadilly Circus to plan the next big explosions. We're not going to defeat Muslim terrorists with political correctness. Remember I said this to you. Remember it when the Jihadi's lay waste a few more western cities they way they have Mumbai. Remember it when CNN and NBC, and the Guardian and Skybollah and all the other quislings are whining in unison about how unexpected and inexplicable the next Muslim terrorist atrocity is."