Aftershock and awe
http://www.guardian.co.uk/leaders/story/0,3604,1304662,00.html
Leader
Wednesday September 15, 2004
The Guardian
Bloodshed, mayhem and horror in Baghdad and Falluja are the daily fare
of post-Saddam Iraq, but fallout from the war continues to spread far
beyond. The latest sign came as Spain got together with France and
Germany, demonstrating that the "Old Europe" so disparaged by Donald
Rumsfeld is alive and kicking - and no more willing now than it was
last year to back a US strategy that is manifestly not working. José
Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, host of Monday's mini-summit in Madrid,
sought to make a very deliberate point as he turned his back on his
conservative predecessor, José Maria Aznar, a staunch ally of George
Bush, to embrace Jacques Chirac and Gerhard Schröder, leaders of
Europe's anti-war camp. Tony Blair was conspicuously not invited to
dinner at the Moncloa Palace, further evidence that his much-vaunted
strategy of "trilateralism" linking London, Paris and Berlin is
unlikely to have a very promising future as long as differences
persist over an issue as big as Iraq.
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