GOING IT ALONE: The United States hasn't a qualm about prosecuting the war against terrorist nations without moral or material support from alleged allies. As usual, SecDef Donald Rumsfeld put it best in a
Q&A session before 3,000 U.S. Marines at Camp Pendleton: "It's less important to have unanimity than it is making the right decision and doing the right thing, even though at the outset it may seem lonesome." Rumsfeld went on to give weak-kneed multilateralists a history lesson; he pointed out that just prior to the outbreak of World War II, Winston Churchill alone called for action to preempt further aggression by Hitler's Germany. But "it was not until each country got attacked that they said 'Maybe Winston Churchill was right. Maybe that lone voice expressing concern about what was happening was right'."
President Bush needs no allies nor U.N. approval to fulfill his most fundamental obligation: defending the citizens of the United States against attacks by other countries. And if meeting that obligation requires preemptive strikes against nations that hire mercenaries-masquerading-as-religious zealots to kill Americans, then I have some advice for our handwringing allies: cover your ears.
