With all due respect to Europe's "lack of patience" for Israel, we probably wouldn't have "needed" an Israel if the European leaderss hadn't caused, been complicit in, or tried to ignore, the wholesale slaughter of several million Jews approximately 60 years ago.

And even when you factor alleged European anti-Semitism out of the equation there's still plenty of issues to take with this blind faith in Europe as a moral arbitrator of whether war with Iraq was justified.

Now comes reports out of Iraq that Saddam had bribed "about 270 Iraqi and foreign politicians, businessmen and journalists," including "senior French officials, the ruling parties of India and Bulgaria and even the Russian Orthodox Church....Among those accused were former French Interior Minister Charles Pasqua, former French U.N. Ambassador Bernard Merimee and Russian ultra-nationalist Vladimir "Mad Vlad" Zhirinovsky."

Again, I note this not to argue an inherent U.S. superiority, but to argue against an inherent European superiority, a blind acceptance among many on the left that a European viewpoint is automatically the correct one.