"I'D LIKE TO THANK THE NORWEGIAN PEOPLE" :

Back from the brink : America has won vital respite in India and Pakistan (Times of London, June 12, 2002)

Credit for the detente of the past few days must go to the Americans. The Bush Administration has been almost faultless in its handling of the most dangerous nuclear confrontation since 1962. Its envoys, notably the astute Richard Armitage, have bluntly warned Delhi and Islamabad of the dangers and won commitments to restraint. Co-ordinating their diplomacy with Europe, Russia and regional leaders, they have acted with calm and brutal insistence. The message has got through.

You can't help thinking that if Jimmy Carter or Bill Clinton had been instrumental in averting this war we'd be hearing the jungle drums beating for Nobel Peace Prize consideration, eh? Posted by Orrin Judd at June 12, 2002 8:37 PM