Brown hits all the right notes

Gordon Brown’s op-ed in the Washington Post this morning shows how fluent he is in the language of the special relationship. (Although, Brown speaks it with a less emotional and more intellectual accent than Blair). His piece hits all the right notes and by approvingly quoting Ronald Reagan he shows Washington’s Republican elite that he is not the Cape Cod partisan that some fret that he is.

The most notable line in the essay is Brown’s description of terrorism as “not a cause but a crime. A crime against humanity.” This is yet another example of Brown’s balancing skills. He avoids referring to the war on terror but by calling terrorism a “crime against humanity” he proves that he is not a September 10th person who views the current threat as merely a law enforcement problem.