It’s not like Europe hasn’t been a battlefield for centuries or anything like that. There’s not much in the way of ideological cover for what’s happening now, though. Call these last fifty years a time out.

We’ve (the U.S. and allies) have pretty much crushed al Q as a world operation. The gomers died in Iraq, with their “leaders” hanging their burkas in Pakistan, Saudi Palaces, and probably f’n Dearborn… waiting for Bush to go away.

Iran’s usefulness to Russia is over with the Ossetian war, isn’t it? Russia gets paid for a crappy theater radar/SAM network but has probably spent more time developing network relationships with the people that Putin intends to replace the mullahs with.

I’m going to go out on a limb here and predict that Putin, and his successors, have a plan to deal with Islam’s demographic advantage. Just sayin…

In my above comment I published a wish, not a prediction, in that Bush would step up and put a lid on this situation.

It was just a wish. I think he’s probably terminally tired of all the horse shit of dealing with the Democrats, the media, and our “allies”, and may just walk away having only freed thirty million or so people, killing or capturing the lion’s share of al Q, and establishing two democracies where nothing remotely like them existed before.

He’s only one man. And he’s done… what he said he would do.

Break time is over, Europe.

Darkness falls.