John Hawkins: Here's a quote from the book: "Indeed, it is perfectly conceivable that Britain could, like France, become a quasi-hostile power within one election." Why do you say this?

Claire Berlinski: Here's another quote from the book: "Traditionally, Britain's anti-American elites have been vocal, but they have generally been marginalized as chattering donkeys: They have never been able to exert sufficient influence to unravel the Anglo-American alliance. There are now, however, some two million Moslem immigrants in Britain, and more worshipers at Britain's mosques each week than at the Church of England. These immigrants form a highly visible and powerful anti-American vanguard and voting bloc, and their sentiments are particularly hostile toward America. According to a December 2002 poll commissioned by The Guardian - a newspaper anything but prone to anti-Islamic hysteria - 13 percent of British Moslems approved of the September 11 attacks. Another fifteen percent declared themselves unsure. More than half refused to believe al Qaeda had been responsible, and more than two-thirds believed the United States had declared war on Islam. Following September 11, British schoolchildren of Pakistani origin cheered and punched the air.

"Anti-Americanism has by this route escaped its circumscribed association with Britain's privileged pseudo-sophisticates, permeated Britain's underclass and its working class, and become inextricably conflated with a raw strain of racial and religious resentment. As a consequence, the Anglo-American alliance is far more vulnerable than most Americans realize."