SUPERB ARTICLE by John Vinocur on today's International Herald Tribune on the more than cold relationships between Spain and the US, a propos but not only because of, the phone that doesn't ring. Vinocur dissects all the juvenilism, incoherence, contradictions of Zapatero and his administration since they took power.

The article is so good that it's absolutely impossible to select only one or two paragraphs, so as they say, read the whole thing.