Long term it is no favour to follow a friend who is making a disastrous mistke.

Don't get us wrong in Europe. We like you Yanks. We like your tv programs, your films, and your fast food has been popular with our kids. I have good friends and even relatives your side of the pond.

What we don't like is when a president appears from nowhere with no track record of understanding the world and attempts to change the way that nations interact with each other.

War is always a disaster. It always causes more problems than it solves. Sometimes, very rarely, it is unavoidable. This is not one of those times. This war will make the world more unstable; Osama will be rubbing his hands as the recruits roll in.

I would like to see a SECRET vote on the Security Council to see just how many of the other 13 vote with the US and the UK if bullying and bribery are not in the equation.