"That' s a great example of blaming the others!"

Yeah, American conservatives always whine and wimper about the left blaming everyone for their problems... But in reality its just that they [the right] just disagrees about who to blame.

I find it odd to the extreme that the american right thinks 'alliance' means:
"agree with everything we do and fight every war we determine eeds to be fought, don't try to sway us, and in general shuddup and siddown."

This is sort of how Russia treated the old soviet block... Not a good model for the maintenance of an alliance.

Yeah, its all starting to sound like Kruchev-era soviet politics on opposite day around here.

Davin