Gunships from France, the Netherlands and Britain could become part of a NATO contribution to a U.S. strike
The squeamish had reason to worry. They saw a superpower humbled, its enraged people baying for revenge, a nervous President declaring war before identifying the enemy. In public the Bush Administration presented the nations of the world with a choice, you're either with us or you're against us, even though everyone knew only one answer was acceptable. U.S. leaders counseled patience, but the Texan excesses of George W. Bush's syntax those odes to Wild West wanted posters, that unfortunate talk of a "crusade" against evil did little to inspire confidence in a measured U.S. response. Words of sympathy flowed...
