CAN WE BRING NATO IN?….I took a quick stroll around the pro-war blogosphere just now because I was curious to see its reaction to the news that we’re accelerating the transfer of power to the Iraqis. There’s surprisingly little comment about it, actually, but a few people seem pretty seriously pissed off, including Sebastian Holsclaw, Tacitus, and Armed Liberal.
Well, if they’re pissed now, I don’t want to be anywhere near them if this turns out to be true:
The United States accepts that to avoid humiliating failure in Iraq it needs to bring its forces quickly under international control and speed the handover of power, Javier Solana, the European Union foreign policy chief, has said. Decisions along these lines will be made in the “coming days”, Mr Solana told The Independent.
….Colin Powell, the US Secretary of State, arrives in Brussels tonight for talks with EU ministers, which he will combine with a meeting with the retiring Nato secretary general, Lord Robertson of Port Ellen. Diplomats say that Mr Powell is expected to “test the water” about the involvement of the transatlantic alliance in Iraq.
Bring NATO in? These guys are sounding more and more like Democrats every day.
I have a hard time believing that the Bush administration will ever be willing to make the painful concessions necessary to get NATO cooperation, but the fact that they’re even thinking about it is a turnabout of startling proportions. This state visit to Britain is already full of surprises, and it’s just barely started.
