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Timothy Ash’s seemingly unproductive op-ed piece sides with his definition of a Blairite frame of mind, and criticizes Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, and the American stance, as well as the “Chiraco-Putinesque idea,” as he puts it. While he is mostly accurate in criticizing the French stance on the situation in Iraq, there is a subtle sense of contradiction in his argument. He defends the Blair view of attempting to globalize the anti-terrorist stance, and in a sense, to create a partnership in support of America. He states that Blair’s fault was in not attempting to create this allegiance immediately post 9/11. Ash suggests that a new cold war of sorts be formed, only against international terrorism, and that the U.S. should not act unilaterally, with American Exceptionalism as its backing. Well the truth is, while Ash envisions this recreation of a “larger version of the cold war West” in which Europe unites with the U.S. against international