Europe Needs America

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French President Nicolas Sarkozy announced France’s new defense policy and it represents an historic departure. Despite the media chorus telling us that the last eight years have driven a wedge between the U.S. and Europe, Sarkozy wants to cuddle. France will be an active part of NATO’s command structure for the first time since Charles de Gaulle turned his back on the transatlantic alliance in 1966.

In the end, it’s Europe that has to do something about its go-it-alone attitude. With American operations in Iraq meeting greater success and with Muslim integration in Europe proving evermore challenging, savvy European leaders know whose post-9/11 model they need to follow in both civil and military affairs. The truth is, the only way George W. Bush could have destroyed U.S.-Europe relations would have been to broadcast American weakness in a free world under threat... [snip]

Sarkozy has proved himself an admirable leader and reliable friend of the U.S. He, Gordon Brown, Angela Merkel, and Silvio Berlusconi are part of a wave of European heads of state who unabashedly cop to appreciating American strength.

[Charles Krauthammer recently observed: Don't listen to Europe's media, listen to its voters; in the last few years they've elected pro-American governments in Britain, France, Italy and Germany simultaneously for the first time in over 50 years...]

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