Syria, Bush and Alan Partridge

The pressure on Syria to withdraw from the Lebanon really seems to have come from nowhere. Who would have thought that an assassination a month ago would bring about some serious sabre rattling from the US? Well, lots of people really. Syria has been on the target list for a long time, and the US have found an issue to attack it for which many European and Arab countries actually support the US on.

It looks increasingly likely that Bush's policy, whatever he may say at European summits, is of further antagonism and instability in the middle east. ITN news ran a story yesterday which interrupted The World Is Not Enough (possibly the best recent Bond movie) which seemed to be saying that democracy is spreading in the mid-east. Citing Egypt, the Lebanon, Palestine and even Iraq as examples, ITN was obviously trying to suggest that US foreign policy has been successful.

Of course, this is something that only Alan Partridge could believe. Listen now to the latest repeat of Knowing Me Knowing You, where Alan takes cocaine and interviews a 52 year old TV host.

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