Re: Ask the tax-payers who foot the bill for Europe’s defense today . . .
The voting public would have the politicians on their knees praising the EU in a heartbeat.
Won't happen, though. Europe's old, bad habits are too hard to break, and they couldn't afford your U.S.-competitive price, even if they had to pay it.
And I say again, national defense defines adversary to be an enemy of the nation, be it a nation, alliance of nations, or, as we have today, a committee of homicidal maniacs. To surmise differently is to undermine attempts to get NATO and the EU on its own feet, and another tax-break for the voting, U.S. public.
And please recall that Bush’s "potential adversary"-scenario defines his “Axis of Evil,”
Dan