Political leadership at such a moment demands a Churchillian accent.

Bush was portrayed as facing down a new Hitler with Churchillian resolve, and advocates of containment were accused of appeasement.

There, it fed the Churchillian illusions of many a war president who dreamed of going down in history as freedom s heroic defender.

The British, whose Churchillian nationalism helped them to prevail against Hitler s attacks, never shared this aversion. And their deep pride in Britain s liberal democratic tradition made them suspicious of meddling Brussels bureaucrats.