Two recent Hitchens articles. Is it me or does Hitchens seem to have broken off some chains since leaving The Nation?

He is one of the best day-in day-out writers out today. Which brings us to my favorite; Charles Krauthammer. His latest is genius.

Walk away, Mr. President. Walk away from the U.N. Security Council. It will not authorize the coming war. You can stand on your head and it won't change the outcome. You can convert to Islam in a Parisian mosque and it won't prevent a French veto.

This is so true. Chirac is looking to be the leader of the EU and by extension the leader of a counter Superpower to the US. Our boy Chirac believes that economically, culturally, and politically, the EU can supplant the US, or at least serve as another avenue.

But, Mr. President, he's not going to get it. Even if you marshal the nine votes on the Security Council by watering down the resolution, delaying the invasion, establishing criteria Hans Blix is sure to muddy and Mohamed ElBaradei is sure to say Saddam Hussein has met, France and Russia will still exercise the veto. You may call it a moral victory. The British left, which is what this little exercise is about, will not. It will not care what you call it but what Kofi Annan calls it, and he has already told us: a failed resolution rendering a war that follows illegitimate.

Is this what people against the war want? An America that cedes its sovereignty to nations who wish us ill will. Then we might as well tear up the constitution and follow the rest of the worlds lemmings in signing the flawed Kyoto Protocol and joining the World Court. The President serves the US first and only. The world community is second to America's well being.