I can't believe I am wiser than most of the media or blogosphere, but apparently I either am or am way off base in seeing a whole element of this war / crisis / unpleasantness that is virtually unspoken.

Namely, the extent to which US (in)actions of late, almost across the board, are not targeted at Iran, Syria, Hezbollah, AL Queda, Israel, North Korea, etc.

They are targeted in a big way at Europe, and lesser at the UN. They are targeted at the part of the "West" that is not us. And the message being sent is simple: the West will die. Soon.

The US, for many reasons, may do OK for the next few generations, but the West is dying before our eyes. Now. Today. Not in our children's lifetime, but in ours.

"Dying" does not mean dead, and it does not mean beyond recovery, but it most certainly means death is inevitable without a radical change of course.

And that of course means 'Western societies that are not us' taking the people that Mr. Moore writes about above, slamming their heads into various and sundry walls, and FORCING them to live with or at least confront the ramifications and folly of their actions.

They all want "peace" (Thanks, Mr Chamberlain), but will do nothing.... NOTHING... other than bloviate to see it brought forth. The ideal peacekeeper for a situation already stabilized by US power (like in Kosovo) is a European. The ideal peacekeeper for a situation like in South Lebanon is in the person (as one blogger noted) of that famous Family Circus character.... "Not Me".

Defense of stability in Asia from NoKo? Not Me! Forcibly disarming Hezbollah? Not Me! Stability in Iraq? Not Me!

Now credit where due... Afghanistan was just turned over to NATO. Noted. But what matters is not what the non-American West is WILLING to do. What matters is what HAS to be done for the safety and future of Western Civilization.

And Mr. Bush is telling Europe, UN et al, "get ready to see a LOT more of what you are seeing every day on TV, unless YOU get up off your sanctimonious asses and do something. Gotta spend money, draft people, cut back on two month vacations for it? We don't care. Do it, or see you civilization die, and we couldn't help you even if we try. So wake the hell up. It was crunch-time a year ago, and still all you do is bitch.

Those who want a cease-fire here after a solution has been agreed to are interested in solving this problem. Those who want one right now are interested in feeling better about themselves for "making the bad pictures go away".

(I should mention the extraordinary British bulldog courage in Iraq. Neither Mr. Blair, nor what remains of British arms, should be then target of my rant, quite the opposite. Is is the British who are written about in the posted article and their continental ilk (ahem... BBC!)that are literally killing our civilization.)

Europe is leaving the West, more or less voluntarily. The UN never was the West.

The European power structure (and media) is completely socialist. They don't care about terrorism because it doesn't fit in with their agenda, which is to further Marxism at all costs. Americans look at Europe and smell death and decay, but to socialists that is the beautiful fragrance of Marxism realized.

We Europeans? Do the British consider themselves Europeans now?

I think the Anglosphere will survive, so savvy world leaders will strive to be included.

To a man without a hammer, nothing looks like a nail.