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Sullivan on Iran

Quid pro quo, suggests Andrew:

Iran’s state-controlled media reported that an Iranian diplomat would now have access to the five Iranians arrested in Irbil — captives whose whereabouts bears close scrutiny in the weeks ahead. And an Iranian official, Jalal Sharafi, also detained in Iraq two months ago, was returned to Tehran last Tuesday. Hmm. In The Washington Post last Friday the very well connected neoconservative columnist Charles Krauthammer bragged that “American action is what got this unstuck”. Last week, Vice-President Dick Cheney told ABC News radio that he “did not know” if any deal was made. That is, to say the least, an interesting nonresponse to the question.

As unfortunate as such a set of circumstances may be — we're now trading spies for soldiers, assuming these reports are true — one takeaway is positive. Can there be any doubt that the Anglo-American "special relationship" has solidified into a permanent one?

Anti-Americanism is choking in the UK, far worse than it is in France, and yet, somehow, we still manage to sacrifice for our English cousins in ways that would be unthinkable for anyone else. I smiled reading the above paragraph in Sullivan's Times piece. Not because it means that once again and Yankee Doodle Dee, we're plucking Blighty out of the soup, but because news like this must drive Geoffrey Wheatcroft and Simon Jenkins crazy. A disastrous war that should never have been fought actually strengthens U.S.-British ties the more disastrous it gets.

There's every indication that should either David Cameron or Gordon Brown be elected the next prime minister, the nexus between Washington and London would remain unbroken. George Washington's famous admonition against "entangling alliances" was right, save for one the ally he never thought we'd have.

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