The incomparable Victor Davis Hanson has another brilliant article in NRO on why Europe is reliving the 1930’s all over again. From the League of Nations to the UN, it looks like history is indeed repeating itself:
Western Europe has almost gone the way of Weimar. Amoral, disarmed, and socialist, it seeks ephemeral peace at all costs, never long-term security, much less justice. Furious that history has not ended in perpetual peace and leisure, it has woken up angry that Mr. Bush and Mr. Blair disturbed its fanciful slumber with chatter about germs and genocide.
This piece is today’s required reading…
