American 'can do' vs BBC 'can't'. Not a long post; just a note about an exasperated summary of BBC negativism over Iraq from the erudite people of the New Criterion Weblog, 'Arma Virumque'. It's funny, sometimes I get the feeling that the Beeb thinks it was an unBritish thing to do to get involved in Iraq alongside the US. I always feel like pointing out it was a stroke of genius to get involved in this successful but difficult operation at such little cost, by getting the plum sphere of operations in Basra. If, and I say this cautiously, if we in the UK are attacked by Al Quaeda, at least we can say that our troops are among Islamic people who were desperate for outside intervention and grateful for our actions, and that we've done so much more for Islamic people than Bin Laden ever has or will.