europeans save the world
Charles Johnson
Fri Nov 30, 2001 at 1:13 pm PST • Views: 155
Great column by Jonah Goldberg in today’s National Review: Europeans Save the World.
The Spanish, drawing deeply from their rich and storied two-and-a-half decades’ experience of democracy, are mumbling loudly about whether they will extradite 14 members of an al Qaeda cell to the United States. Brave members of the European Union, who feel the need to remain anonymous, explain that none of its 15 member states will violate the prohibition on extraditing anyone to a nation that uses military tribunals or imposes the death penalty.
Also this week, lawyers in Brussels (a phrase which should raise your bile as quickly as “diversity counselors at Swarthmore”) have commenced proceedings to put the prime minister of Israel on trial for “crimes against humanity,” for something done by a Lebanese mercenary who later found work for the mass-murderer Hafez Assad.
And, lastly, just as it has become clear that the United States and Great Britain have orchestrated a Northern Alliance victory in Afghanistan, the French have boldly leapt into the breach. There’s a nice circularity to that: They stuck us with Southeast Asia when it was clear they couldn’t win, and they signed up for Northwest Asia when it was clear that we could.
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