[FairOpinion]

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[MoJo2001]

When I think of Europe and their policies, I think "BARF". That's if I even think about them. Which isn't very often.

[MEG33]

LOL! I love Steyn!

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[Joe Bonforte]

On the other hand, a new CIA analysis has predicted the collapse of the EU within 15 years. It's a bit unsettling to find that the guys at Langley who've got absolutely everything wrong for decades suddenly agree with me.

Steyn is right so often, it's scary. And somehow he can still make it all come out funny.

[q_an_a]

the last line - "if the CIA's estimates are as right as their past - the EU will be a 21st century hyperpower." That made me laugh. Thanks for your post.

[flixxx]

""What does all this mean? Nothing. In victory, magnanimity – and right now Bush can afford to be magnanimous, even if Europe isn't yet ready to acknowledge his victory. On Thursday, in a discussion of "the greater Middle East", the President remarked that Syria was "out of step". And, amazingly, he's right. Not so long ago, Syria was perfectly in step with the Middle East – it was the archetypal squalid stable Arab dictatorship. Two years on, Syria hasn't changed, but Iraq has, and, to varying degrees, the momentum in Jordan, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, the Palestinian Authority and Lebanon (where the Syrians have overplayed their hand) is also in the Bush direction. Boy Assad finds himself in the position of the unfortunate soldier in Irving Berlin's First World War marching song, "They Were All Out Of Step But Jim".""

Wow...powerful paragraph---hard to believe so much has changed from 2001 to 2005 in the Middle East

[TheForceOfOne]

"Have you hugged a European foreign minister today?"

Not on the first date sorry, besides it's so hard to get the slime off afterwards.

[happygrl]

The screw turns.

[McGavin999]

What does all this mean? Nothing. In victory, magnanimity — and right now Bush can afford to be magnanimous, even if Europe isn't yet ready to acknowledge his victory

Europe will still be claiming that Arabs can't handle democracy when the Iraqis are celebrating their centennial.

[DannyTN]

What's our policy in Europe?

Old Europe or New Europe?

[John Lenin]

You ville take theez job as a prostititue or vee vill cut you off zee welfare rolz ....

[hosepipe]

[ When these subjects come up, US policy is to nod politely and try not to giggle. ]

URP'eons are a legends in their own minds.... kind of like Canadians except Canadians are dwarves..

[ohioWfan]

For weeks now, the Administration's hardline Zionist Christian fundamentalist neocon unilateralist warmongers have been coming into the office to find smiley-face reminders from the White House pinned to the desk: "Have you hugged a European foreign minister today?"

Oh, my! What delicious sarcasm!

Steyn BUMP!! (No giggling, though......)

[WarrenC]

Nice to see the "hiatus" is ended. SteynOnLine is back up and running.

[TexanToTheCore]

"The French Foreign Minister took to calling the US Secretary of State "chère Condi" every 30 seconds."

That's because the French FM is on the make...nothing more.