I love The Economist and The Far Eastern Economic Review. Don't always agree with them but they have consistent reasoning, and an out-of-U.S. frame of reference (In particular I enjoy The Economist kind of thinking in terms of 'Commonwealth', the U.K. had more of an empire than US ever could).

Nevertheless, I come down with Bush on Iraq. I think the world should have stuck with the U.S. on this one and the lack of unanimity will cause more grief for all of us. Note that France is being threatened with execution of kidnappees based on their school dress codes.

Oh, getting back to the thread premise. I agree we should read it, even if it's wrong.