Mortimer Zuckerman on the Europeans.

It is ironic that the same America that has brought peace and liberty to so many millions around the world is seen by some now as a greater threat than Saddam Hussein. We saved Western Europe during the Cold War and dealt with the crises in the Balkans and Kosovo in the 1990s. Today, we are expected to protect Taiwan from China, to mediate between India and Pakistan, to resolve the crisis with North Korea, and even to settle a dispute between Morocco and Spain about a small island in the Mediterranean, home to several dozen goats. Europeans want us to be on tap but not on top.

A good part of the European moaning is really a psychological crutch to draw attention away from weaknesses at home–what the French writer Jean-François Revel called "weapons of mass distraction." Europeans cannot muster the political will to develop their own military, so they recoil from any use of force. We cannot be constrained by these apologies for impotence when we face dangers that metastasize almost daily.