Thanks for the non-bowdlerized version, Pokey.
Methinks, that rather than remaining a dogmatic neocon, Steyn is yet another writer (think, Michelle Malkin) who is ignoring the divide set up by neocon and paleocon hacks.
Many of my New Hampshire neighbours wander round with the constitution in their pocket so they can whip it out and chastise over-reaching congressmen and state representatives at a moment's notice. Try going around with the European Constitution in your pocket and you'll be walking with a limp after 48 hours. It's full of stuff about European space policy, water resources, free expression for children, the right to housing assistance, preventive action on the environment, etc.
They may well be worthy planks in a political platform, but they're not constitutional matters. Yet what else is there? The European Constitution attempts to supplant genuine national identities with an ersatz bureaucratic identity - a government identity, from which a new national identity will follow. For Ronald Reagan, America was the "shining city on a hill". For M Giscard and his fellow founding fathers, the European Union is affordable housing on an environmentally protected hill. I can't see it working myself.
Steyn is a true American
Just so. You can't make a Union by saying, "We're united and we have the paperwork to prove it!"
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