April 01, 2004
We will fight them on the beaches but not, apparently, in the local parks
A statue destroyed by German bombers 60 years ago is at last restored and ready to be returned to the park where it used to stand. It will not, though, lest local practitioners of the Religion of Peace consider it another root cause of savagery. A nation that at one point was defined by its willingness to stand alone against great evil no longer has the courage necessary to admit that there is such a thing as evil, let alone look it in the eye. George W. Bush is far from flawless, but he is the closest thing to Churchill currently on offer, and this is less a reflection of Bush than of Europe.