Worse than cockroaches

Via Citizen Smash: Mark Steyn, writing in the Spectator, on the Western alliance and the death of Europe.

On 11 September 2001, I wrote that one of the casualties of the day’s events would be the Western alliance: ‘The US taxpayer’s willingness to pay for the defence of Canada and Europe has contributed to the decay of America’s so-called “allies”, freeing them to disband their armed forces, flirt with dictators and gangster states, and essentially convert themselves to semi-non-aligned.’ ‘The West’ was an obsolete concept, because, as I put it later that month, for everyone but America ‘the free world is mostly a free ride’.

Steyn also has something to say about the cockroach metaphor. I agree it’s not particularly apt, but it makes a change from weasels.