National Review's Victor Davis Hanson on a Clearly Weak Europe

Professor Hanson spells out Europe's self-created impotency now that the Iranians are rubbing it in their faces.

March 30, 2007

Houses of Straw
The EU’s delusions about the sufficiency of “soft” power are embarrassingly revealed.
by Victor Davis Hanson
National Review Online

It’s completely outrageous for any nation to go out and arrest the servicemen of another nation in waters that don’t belong to them.” So spoke Admiral Sir Alan West, former First Sea Lord of the Royal Navy, concerning the present Anglo-Iranian crisis over captured British soldiers. But if the attack was “outrageous,” it was apparently not quite outrageous enough for anything to have been done about it yet.

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