Europe 60-years After D-Day

I had to link to this just for the opening:

Americans, as NRO's Cliff May told a skeptical BBC World Service presenter last week, are persistently forward-looking. Shrinks and analysts could give you reasons, but my hunch is that we look forward as a nation because we're driving the big global bus, and if we don't keep our eye on where we're going, we all take the big plunge.

Europeans, on the other hand, are passengers — and lousy ones. Think of a coachload of belligerent drunks, and you get the idea. Not only are they clueless about what lies ahead, but their preoccupations are entirely about what they think they've just seen. They forget that there are good reasons why they're not driving: most of which are scattered all over the road behind them.

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