Like only a few other

Like only a few other commentators on the war we are in (preeminently Bernard Lewis and Daniel Pipes), Victor Davis Hanson brings a lifetime of relevant learning and reflection to his analysis. In “The Wages of September 11” Professor Hanson summarizes the critical changes in our world over the past year that result from the attack.
These are the first few sentences of his paragraph on America’s relationship with Europe: “Foreign relations will not be the same in our generation. Our coalition with Europe, we learn, was not a partnership, but more mere alphabetic nomenclature and the mutual back scratching of Euro-American globetrotters