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  • US can sit back and watch Europe implode

    02/27/2005 12:32:39 PM PST · by Zivasmate · 46 replies · 1,939+ views
    Chicago sun-Times ^ | Feb.27, 2005 | Mark Steyn
    U.S. can sit back and watch Europe implode February 27, 2005 BY MARK STEYN SUN-TIMES COLUMNIST Advertisement A week ago, the conventional wisdom was that George W. Bush had seen the error of his unilateral cowboy ways and was setting off to Europe to mend fences with America's ''allies.'' I think not. Lester Pearson, the late Canadian prime minister, used to say that diplomacy is the art of letting the other fellow have your way. All week long President Bush offered a hilariously parodic reductio of Pearson's bon mot, wandering from one European Union gabfest to another insisting how much...