Seymour Hersh on some results of another Bush term

In the Toronto Star, Seymour Hersh had this to say about some of the results he expects to see if Bush assumes the presidency again:

If there is a second Bush term, Hersh believes European countries — spurred by large and increasingly radical Muslim populations at home and the fact that they are 5,000 kilometres closer to Iraq than the United States is — will band together to be more opposed to American policy than they already are.

"And I think you're going to see even the Germans say it's time to remove the United States as the sole interlocutor between Israel and the Palestinians," Hersh said.

These are exactly some of the things I had in mind when I wrote that a Kerry loss may actually be more beneficial to the world in the long run than a Kerry victory. And I'd expect that the reverse holds as well: if Kerry is elected, European nations will be that much less likely to continue in their strengthened opposition to American policy, and will allow the US to continue in its decades-long role of enabling Israel to keep the threat of peace indefinitely at bay. And the blowback for US citizens will be just as disastrous as it's been in the past.