If France, Germany, and the Benelux countries want to continue deepening their integration in the spirit of their hitherto actions, Poland will do best to keep its distance.

The U.S. should strongly discourage the development of the EU as a military power, urge the winding down of its fledgling Rapid Reaction Force, and insist that NATO be the only serious European defense force.

Plunging global equity prices and frozen global credit markets are leading Europe into the start of its worst economic recession in the postwar period.

Pursuing common defense objectives, such as national and theater missile defenses, might well be another joint enterprise that can keep NATO healthy and vibrant.

If things develop in Eastern Europe as expected, Europeans will have new burdens to assume. Americans will have old burdens to relinquish.

The British public decisively rejected rampant socialism.