That the world changed on 911 has become one of those true cliches that some people mouth unconsciously, and others mouth insincerely. But the world did change that day. Americans speak much less commonly of 311 as a day the world changed, but it did. March 11, 2004 was the day of the train bombings in Madrid that killed 192 people. After 911, we learned that the old European powers were not our allies, and would gladly see us destroyed by Islamic terrorism. (For reasons which I have earlier discussed, I do not count the British as Europeans, even though...