[The Vast Right Wing]

BUMP, I say we bomb and if the Europeans don't like it let them do something about it.

[mathurine]

Hard lesson emerging for the Europeans is that while we have saved them from themselves for a century or more, we are not obliged to. The corollary is that they suppose that because saving them is sometimes in our interests, and being saved is in theirs, our interests and theirs are more convergent than they actually are. The Cold War of our immediate recollection is probably over; Europe could give us little except some advanced bases for that one, but those bases were of some considerable value. More and more they have less and less to offer. Humiliating to be so irrelevant.