The Guardian assumes the position

"Rebuilding global trust will be the major task of the next US president." a recent Guardian editorial ended.

Either they are hopelessly naive. They really believe America is run by a aberrant President and that come January 2008 all will be well,

or they are committed to pulling the wool over their readers' eyes and playing a role in the propaganda machine

or they just forget and have to fill the page up so some guff or other.

I hope it's the latter but fear it is the second.