[Undertow]

My sincere apologies if this has already been posted.

[Maelstrom]

"So now the bloody Yank nancy boys are using flying nuclear
cheeseburgers launched from the Diego Garcia Burger King. Not exactly the Bengal Lancers, is it?"

ROFLMAO!!!!

[Route66]

"Before September 11th, most Americans tolerated the anti-Yank diatribes from the Rest Of The West as a quaint example of
the local culture. Filtered through the smoke of the World Trade Center, it's no longer quite so cute. The real phenomenon of
the last year is not Europe's or Canada's anti-Americanism, which has always existed, but a deep, pervasive and wholly new
American weariness with its so-called allies."

Absolutely loved and appreciated this plain spoken article.
He's right. The anti-Americanism is 'not so cute anymore'. As a matter of fact, I'm bone weary of it.

[Carry_Okie]

Outstanding essay. What he misses is UN-World v US bipolarity that will surely result when the Islamicists in Europe start to turn the screws. That war will be economic. The UN will coordinate the effort.

Our biggest strategic vulnerabilities are two 1) the continuing export of production capacity, especially food and mineral production. We have almost no mining industry left thanks to environmentalists coordinated at the UN. Most people don't know that we import more primary food than we produce. Note the impact of the West Coast Dock strike. 2) The second key weakness is illegal immigration, loose border control, and minimal inspection of incoming containers.

I am tempted to add corporate farming, loss of a timber industry, and our bureaucratic overhead in response to pest vectors and in medicine, but those are too abstract for most people, but note the role environmentalists have played in those. Bureaucratic government is our own worst enemy.

[Psycho_Bunny]

Ya...it was already posted.

But Steyn is always worth a re-post...and a re-read.

[pray4liberty]

Steyn is right on the money (pun intended). Again.

[BillCompton]

It is always appropriate to post Mark Steyn!

[JeepInMazar]

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