I couldn't phrase it better. Peggy Noonon on war with Iraq:
It is one thing for France and Germany to oppose America's stand--that, after all these years, is not news--but quite another for representatives of those countries to treat a Colin Powell with such disdain, the kind of disdain you might use toward the emissary of an old enemy, not the representative of an old friend...Is it quite right in this formulation to call a France, a Germany, uncivilized? Germany is so cultured, France so refined. But they are like the Boston Brahmin figure of whom it was long ago said, "He has a mind like the new England countryside, highly cultivated and inherently sterile." They are lost in the postmodernist ozone, they are post-church countries with great wealth and no faith. They love to talk, and not only because they enjoy the sound. Actions have consequences, but talk is just more face time.
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