Why do things right...?

Spain has announced that Spanish  troops will be leaving Kosovo before the middle of the year. 

The very young and ambitious Minister of Defense, Carme Chacón, whose whole purpose in life is to have a photograph of her published daily, made the announcement while visiting the troops this week. 

She managed her purpose: her picture is everywhere. Every major paper and TV station in the world has carried it. 

But she also managed to surprise everyone. Secretary of State Clinton has ordered her Spokesperson to express that surprise in unusually strong terms. Once again, after Spain chickened out of Irak in 2004, serious doubts arise about how reliable an ally this country is to NATO and the US.

Zapatero ( remember he was the only leader to remain seated while the American flag paraded past him) has been trying for years to be invited to the White House. Maybe this time round, with Obama, he won´t be either. The good thing about the US is that an insult to a National symbol is an insult to the Nation as a whole. Nation is a concept Zapatero cannot understand.

Other NATO allies have also expressed their surprise and in some cases dismay. The Czech Presidency of the European Union has said that Spain is the wrong example to follow.

Once again Zapatero and his group of amateur leaders ( Carme Chacon went straight from the ailes of a Department store to the Ministry of Defense) have tried to prove that, if you try hard enough, they can accomplish the " leit motiv" of his Government since 2004: Why do things right when you can just as easily do them wrong?