A Tangled Web

PAYING THE PIPER.



The always readable Victor Davis Hanson over at NRO believes that the scheduled partial withdrawal of US troops from Europe will force Europe into rejoining the real world without having the US bail it out militarily. I like this line he uses,



"Europe, as the perpetual adolescent, took potshots at its doting parent, always with the assumption that Dad would still hand over the keys, ignore the cheap sass, and "be there for me" if the car ended up in the ditch."



Well Dad ain't playing ball anymore, and, ".. this is no parlor game any more. Islamic fascism, scary former Soviet republics, rogue Middle Eastern nuclear states, an ever more proud and muscular China thirsty for oil — these and more specters are all out there and waiting, waiting, waiting...Welcome back to the world, Europe."