Writing in the Wall Street Journal, Andrew Roberts, author of The Storm of War: A New History of the Second World War, says:
"I never thought I'd say this... but my countrymen's reactions to the death of Osama bin Laden have made me doubt my pride in being British.
The foul outpouring of sneering anti-Americanism, legalistic quibbling, and concern for the supposed human rights of our modern Hitler have left me squirming in embarrassment and apology before my American friends. Yet what I most despise my fellow Britons for is their absolute refusal, publicly or even privately, to celebrate the most longed for news in a decade. . . .
"From Britain's pathetic and ignoble reaction to the death of our greatest ally's No. 1 foe, I fear for our fortitude in the continuing war against terror. The British government in London and the British Army in Afghanistan are magnificent, but if the people themselves are shot through with what Winston Churchill called 'the long, drawling, dismal tides of drift and surrender,' I wonder whether we can be counted upon for much longer." . . . Today all I feel is shame at my country's pathetic reaction to your own great day of joy. [more . . .]