Howard Braves it Out
as the Americans Learn some Hard Lessons
by Jennifer Hewett
March 13 2003

John Howard will have a tough sell when he addresses the National Press Club in the Great Hall of Parliament House today. The politics of the war with Iraq certainly weren't supposed to work out like this.

They weren't supposed to feature a feverish crisis in European-US relations, military action without any political cover from the UN, increasing fury at President Bush and the exceedingly modest number of political leaders who publicly back him.

Howard will brave it out because he strongly believes in what the Bush Administration is doing and because he now has little choice, anyway. But it won't be easy - for him or anyone else - because we appear to be going through one of the periodic convulsions that change how the world operates. . . .

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