Great article, thank you.
I like the idea that Bush is just humoring them.
We should now remove our remaining troops from Europe, Germany in particular. If some are needed to protect the newer, Eastern European states, then put a much smaller contingent in Poland.
Then we should humor them some more and state we are removing our troops because the EU is now much more capable of defending itself.
We have to stop subsidizing their economies with our troop deployments!!!!
You know what I guess that is when Europe started to really deteriorate in the first place
that huge wave of European migration after World War II, of which my parents were a part of, brought all the Europeans with chutzpah, work ethic, love of freedom over here and left the whiners, losers and lovers of the status quo at home.....so in essence Europe had a "courage drain"....
even in the 1950's my father felt there was so much bureaucracy etc in Holland that he'd have a better shot in Canada and man was he right.....although the encrouching bureaucracy here is getting down right annoying.....
of course Canada and America were founded by brave gutsy Europeans, sick of the aristocracy and the Church etc.....