Blame it on the baseball

Don't get me wrong, I liked this article. Stephen Moss reviews George Bush's cricketing skills, which he put on display in Pakistan last week. Moss also speculates that if Americans had never abandoned cricket for baseball there'd be no war on terror today. "No one who truly appreciates cricket's narrative complexities and its suspicion of 'closure' would wage anything so unwinnable as a war on terror". In other words, it's a game for people who prefer to play it safe. That is not an American trait.