President Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair got together one last time yesterday at the White House.

It’s good to see that at least two world leaders took the lessons of 9/11 to heart, and both paid the political price in a world that has its head in the sand, expecting the Jihadist tide to pass it by before it pulls that appendage out again.

Said Blair:

"I have taken the view that Britain should stand shoulder to shoulder with America after Sept. 11.  I have never deviated from that view." 

Blair, evidently the most quotable of the two on this day, also noted that it was much better to be heckled in a democracy, as he and Bush were on that day, than to live under "a brutal, secular dictatorship or religious extremism."

As always, the far-left newspeople in the audience had no clue that there’s actually a choice, or a chance, that they or anyone in the West might actually have to stand up for democracy.

After all, hasn’t all the present trouble in the world been caused by Bush and then supported by Blair, who was browbeat into submission by Karl Rove and others?

A tidy worldview that I supposed Osama bin Laden and others may have something to say about in the near future.