The Best News I've Heard in a While

Finally. Finally. Europe gets it. How long did it have to wait to remember the long shadow of its totalitarian past and acknowledge this threat for what it is? Perhaps the U.S.'s greatest failure since 9/11 has been its inability to convince the world that this threat is truly international, truly a threat directed at the Western way of life. Europe has couched its new approach in inspiring terms:

"At the moment, there are two fundamentally different sets of values in play in Europe, Mr. Reid said: Those of the European Union, including 'democracy, freedom and justice to all' and those of 'totalitarianism,' which hopes to 'subvert a religion whose very name stands for peace.'"

Right on.