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Mark Steyn has a terrific column (so what else is new!) in the latest edition of National Review. I haven't checked if it can be found on line.
"An army of peasants defeated the soi-disant hyperpower. America's closest allies -- the Australians, say -- periodically seek some modest advantge for their citizenry in return for their steadfast support, and generally get nowhere. But a population the size of Australia's simply moved across the border and, despite huge public hostility to the strains imposed on local education and health care, the U S government simply shrugged. There's nothing we can do except give in.
It goes on in brilliant fashion to say that "peasants" is not being used in a pejorative sense but to reflect what happened with some help from inside the perimeter-- the business class and the political elites.
Exactly Maica Steyn gets it as well.