[Aeronaut]

Excellent article. Thanks for posting it.

[vannrox]

"...But we suspect that
should the United States withdraw from Afghanistan
and leave Europeans to deal with motley Taliban leftovers,
all their peacekeepers would leave Kabul tomorrow.


We — not the U.N.,
the EU,
NATO,
or any other alphabet-soup collective —
fought al Qaeda and will soon rid the world of Saddam Hussein.


Moderates in the region
(and Europeans)
would rather trade with,
than free, Iraq.


The pre-September 11 dogma argued that
well-meaning and often valuable international groups
like the Red Cross,
the United Nations,
Amnesty International,
and a host of other organizations headquartered in Brussels,
the Hague,
Geneva,
or London
were both intellectually superior to,
and far more moral than,
almost any American institution —
whether it be the U.S. Congress
or the Peace Corps.


But what we have seen instead from most of them
is either inaction at best
or abject hypocrisy at worst."