True friendship

When things get tough, you find out who your real friends are and where your own sympathies really lie. Following the attacks on the World Trade Center, the UK quickly lined up beside the US for an anti-terror war. Prime Minister Tony Blair made it difficult for any dissent from Continental Europe by declaring the attacks an assault on the Western world. European governments did offer political backing, and more importantly, real intelligence resources in the aftermath, but as the war entered its third week, a sense of unease was growing. In Germany, Chancellor Gerhard Shroeder is having...