Today the BBC and NPR has a join call-in show from "all the world". Message: All the world is against you, America.

I believe that the moderators are clearly against military action, but they do occassionally put a hard question or two one of their callers. Of course, they don't appear to serious about the questions: There's no follow-up to evasive answers which don't address the few challenging questions asked. Example: A brit calls in against action. Moderator asks if he rejects notion that Iraqi WMD could be placed in terrorist hands. Instead, he says WMD (again, "no smoking gun" is being said) would be used against Americans in "peaceful" defense. Instead of asking the hard, obvious question: "Oh, so you believe Iraq has WMD? Doesn't that contradict your earlier stance and justify action?" the moderator asks how the person (a reservist) might feel about fighting in a war they don't like.

We had a Kuwaiti call in and say it was all about oil, and that its wrong to make oil so important (that was funny, coming from Kuwait), a German say "America was alone" (except for, you know, Spain, Italy, the UK, the entire Eastern bloc...), and lots of Muslims taking a consistant anti-American stance.

Of course, its timing -- on a day when (apparently) lots of media-hungry anti-American protests were planned in France, Germany, and New York -- must be a complete co-incidence.