President Bush visits the UK this week, and the usual elements of the sanctimonious left intend to demonstrate against the murderous ways of the American hegemon with red paint, papier mache, and the rest of it. Writing in The Observer (the Sunday edition of The Guardian), David Aaronovitch asks why the protests are so selective:
Where is the red paint to protest against the blasts at Najaf, of the UN in Baghdad, of the Red Cross, of the synagogues, of the Bali night-club, of the Arab-Jewish restaurant in Haifa? Where are the ‘No Suicide Bombings’ posters in the Muswell Hill windows? Or do you really believe we can save ourselves by constructing a huge wall around these islands, or around America, and painting it with smileys? That maybe then the ills of the world will leave us alone?
…and welcomes the president to the Isles.