<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?><oembed><version><![CDATA[1.0]]></version><provider_name><![CDATA[The Dish]]></provider_name><provider_url><![CDATA[http://dish.andrewsullivan.com]]></provider_url><author_name><![CDATA[Andrew Sullivan]]></author_name><author_url><![CDATA[https://dish.andrewsullivan.com/author/sullydish/]]></author_url><title><![CDATA[Why Britain Is&nbsp;Winning]]></title><type><![CDATA[link]]></type><html><![CDATA[<p><img alt="GT_CAMERONEUROPE_11213" class="asset  asset-image at-xid-6a00d83451c45669e20154383ff123970c" src="http://andrewsullivan.readymadeweb.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/6a00d83451c45669e20154383ff123970c-550wi.jpg" style="width: 515px;" title="GT_CAMERONEUROPE_11213" /></p> <p>And not like Charlie Sheen. Julian Lindley-Freeh <a href="http://lindleyfrench.blogspot.com/2011/12/choose-your-real-friends-carefully.html" target="_self">defends</a> Cameron&#39;s veto:</p> <blockquote> <p>Today Britain&#0160;has preserved the strategic room of manouevre worthy of one Europe&#39;s Big Three and which Germany and France last week tried to deny it. When&#0160;Berlin emerges from its&#0160;funk&#0160;it will realise&#0160;it has&#0160;to deal with Britain.&#0160; The French are unlikely to make that connection whilst lost in pre-election &#39;faux&#39; anti-Britishness.&#0160;&#0160;Indeed,&#0160;a more sober&#0160;Berlin&#0160;will&#0160;realise that a deal with Britain is much more likely to promote the kind of economic reforms and&#0160;disciplines&#0160;Germany knows full well Europe needs to compete in this world.&#0160;&#0160;</p> </blockquote> <p>Aaron Ellis <a href="http://thinkstrat.wordpress.com/2011/12/13/why-britain-is-not-isolated-in-europe/" target="_self">nods</a>:</p>]]></html><thumbnail_url><![CDATA[https://sullydish.files.wordpress.com/2011/12/6a00d83451c45669e20154383ff123970c-550wi.jpg?fit=440%2C330]]></thumbnail_url><thumbnail_width><![CDATA[440]]></thumbnail_width><thumbnail_height><![CDATA[260]]></thumbnail_height></oembed>