<As the German lion lay down with the French lamb, Europeans widely congratulated themselves on a world-historical breakthrough and concluded that their future global mission is to develop a "postmodern system" that resolves problems without even the hint of force. (Along the way, they conveniently forgot that this transformation was only made possible because U.S. forces defeated Germany.) They aspire, Kagan argues, to replicate their success on a global scale, by taming a North Korea or an Iraq as they did Germany.

The soft Europeans also conveniently forgot that the only reason that their was a West Germany and an East Germany was because Americans were in the west providing a deterrent from East Germany expanding it's borders to the Atlantic. The Fulda Gap was not referring to the gap between those self-accolading europeans' ears btw.

-Steve G.

If Americans are from Mars, and Europeans from Venus, where are the Canadians from? :)