AMERICA ALONE: BROWN PROMISING TO ABANDON THE USA IN IRAQ

GUARDIAN/AP:

Treasury chief Gordon Brown, expected to succeed Tony Blair as prime minister by September, suggested Sunday that he will pursue an Iraq policy that is more independent of Washington than the current government. Brown acknowledged that mistakes were made in the aftermath of the invasion and promised to be ``very frank'' with President Bush. He also said that Britain is likely to scale down its commitment of troops to Iraq over the next year - even as the White House is considering dispatching thousands more, at least temporarily.

BROWN SAID THIS ON THE BBC. HE SAID THIS BEFORE BUSH HAS ANNOUNCED ANYTHING. HE IS LEFTIST SCUM, MORE INTERESTED IN PANDERING TO HIS LEFT-WING, THEN IN DOING THE RIGHT THING. HE IS NOT TO BE TRUSTED.

Steyn is looking right on: America will have to face the enemy alone. There's no Churchill in England, no De Gaulle even! If Sarkozy doesn't win, and if Pope Benedict doesn't step up to the plate, then it's all over for Europe. I mean Eurabia.

*******UPDATE: Here's another reason to believe that it's all over for the UK (via PJM): the Muslims in England are building ...

a massive, intrusive — and bizarre — Sunni mosque complex to sit alongside the 2012 London Olympics centre. All the indications are that the go-ahead will be given.

The mosque is designed to be the largest religious structure in Britain. It will accommodate 70,000 people, of whom 40,000 can pray at any given time. According to the latest estimates, it will cost as much as £300 million to build. The complex will be known as the Markaz mosque, ‘markaz’ being the Arabic word for ‘centre’.

And, why d'ya suppose they want to build it so big, so imposing, so dominating a mosque? Duh. And the British are just rolling over and spreading their cheeks, so-to-speak. The Brits no longer seem to have what it takes - what they had in 1939 when they stood alone against Nazism - the lone defenders of the free world. Pity.