Very James Stewart....Eastwood doesn't usually do all that muttering and apparent searching for words. All we nneded was the the lights to come on the Christmas tree and him to say ...its wonderful world.

What's very weird is that Americans genuinely believe they are fighting these wars unilaterally. Holding the banner of freedom on their lonesome. They have many allies who comitted forces to the struggle in support of them after 9/11.

It would be just a bit rich if America brought the troops home tomorrow. An admission that maybe we were invading the wrong bloody places in the first instance. Still was a a Republican President who initiated these wars - a real masterstroke. Probably the to pay for the favour of to all the armaments manufacturers who pay for Republican election campaigns.

After all Osama wasn't from Iraq or Afghanistan - and it wasn't either of those countries that was harbouring him.