Suzanne fields writes a travel memoir of President Bush's recent and possibly ongoing trip to the United Kingdom (I'm not sure when he gets back). She includes snipes at the protestors as well as praise for the President. She concludes by commenting on how the Queen and the President got on. "Queen Elizabeth, like Tony Blair, toasted the special relationship. America and Britain, she said, are like close friends who have their spats, and can disagree with each other. But they know how to make up quickly.
She might have been reading Churchill, too. "No people respond more spontaneously to fair play," said the man whose eloquence and common sense was one of the super weapons of that earlier war to save the West. "If you treat Americans well, they always want to treat you better."
Well, I'm not sure that the Queen was as friendly to President Bush as you might think. Apparently she wasn't a big fan of his decision to bring along his own cooks, for example (story here, about halfway down the page).
I'm also not sure that President Bush, despite his best efforts (and those of Karl Rove) is all that Churchillian. Nor do I have the idea that he has that expansive a spirit. Despite what Churchill says, if the United Kingdom isn't with us for Gulf War Three (Iraq and/or Syria), than Newsmax and Rush Limbaugh will add them to the Axis of Traitors, muttering something about contracts, and President Bush will say nothing. He might even take a few subtle digs at the UK.
But, of course, I could be wrong.
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