The writer seems surprised that the 'support' of the Europeans is half-hearted. That provokes a giggle. The act of supporting/upholding all that is good/just/right requires those 3 things that the American left and the Europeans don't have - a brain, a backbone, a pair of balls.
But the writer should study European history a little more closely. It is tradition for them to be 'pacifists'. In order to act as if there is peace, the will close their eyes if someone is being slaughtered right in front of them. Witness the European reaction to Bosnia. They are also 'neutral' and might want to consider if it was them of whom Dante was thinking when he said that the darkest corners of hell are reserved for those who remain neutral in the face of a moral crisis.
Call me insensitive, but I am unmoved by the 'plight' of the Danes and will not be buying any more Havarti than usual.
I am very moved by the plight of our ally Denmark. They have boots on the ground in Iraq--you should show more respect. And as far as "balls", the Danes are showing a hell of a lot more of them than is the Bush State Department, which basically sided with the embassy burners in its disgraceful statment Friday.