On Mother Jones' new blog, Will Tacy considers Bush's rhetoric on terror: Such is the nature of Bush logic, and Bush diplomacy. Never mind the past ("Old Europe," this means you). Never mind if we failed to convince you that invading Iraq was the right thing (we didn't really need to). Never mind if the justifications we offered for doing so have evaporated (it doesn't really matter anymore). Never mind if we refused your counsel and ignored your arguments (we don't need your permission). What's done is done. The terrorists are in Iraq (it may be a civil war, but we're calling them terrorists). It's all one war, and while we may decide how and where that war will be fought, you need to pick sides now. So, unless you're ready to roll over, embrace appeasement, and let the suicide bombers win, you'd better fall in line and stay there. In the current issue of The Weekly Standard, neocon icon William Kristol bemoans "the political crisis in Europe" -- neoconese for the lack of continental support for Washington's wars -- and asserts that "it is the duty of the Bush administration to make those arguments with renewed urgency, and make them directly to the Europeans." Well, Bush made his argument, all right, and to a room full of Europeans. And none of the assembled diplomats hissed or walked out. Still, it's hard to believe this speech will change minds. In fact, it seems sure to provoke indignation and resentment in Berlin and Paris and Ottawa and Mexico City. And in Madrid, of course. The leaders of nations don't much like being told how to think, especially when the person doing the telling is so unwilling to listen. As James P. Pinkerton of Newsday puts it, "while glib White House phrasemakers might persuade most Americans that Bush is Mr. Right, most of the rest of the world sees things differently, and that bodes poorly for the president's 'you're with us or against us' approach."