[vannrox]

So the very knowledgeable European Elites, who seem to know it all, thinks that the US can go back to the time before 9-11. Yeppur... In their dreams!

[F16Fighter]

It is clear there are TWO Americans...

Those of liberal Demo-cRATic persuasion who are virtual Europeans with hearts of a frighten little girls, and with gonads of eunuchs; And those real Americans who understand the responsibility, sacrifice, and courage it takes to preserve the freedom so many take for granted.

[bloodmeridian]

Not quite, but I was struck by — I think all of us were struck by the gap and perception between the Americans and the Europeans. For the Europeans, September 11 was a big deal, a terrorist attack. We are entitled to respond to it. But basically, they expect the world in a few months from now to go back to the way it was on September 10. They don't think anything fundamental has changed. And the Americans, and certainly President Bush, think September 11 changed everything, and that we no longer can accept regimes like Iraqs and Irans working on weapons of mass destruction, regimes that are in cahoots with terrorists, et cetera.

That's why we lead and they follow. And you know what happens to folks who can't lead or follow.