Mark Steyn's great new column on America and the Rest of the West will be linked to by all and sundry before the day's out. It's difficult to choose a best excerpt, but here is perhaps my favorite:
Under Nato, America has over-guaranteed European security, reducing the Rest of the West to the status of a neurotic girlfriend you can never quite shake off, the sort who insists on moving into your pad and then keeps yakking about how she needs her space. Officially, the ROTW is side by side with America in the ‘War on Terrorism’. In practice, its principal contribution to the team effort seems to be sitting on the sidelines watching the Americans skate all over the rink and then handing them a succession of cranky 4.3s.