European Impotence

I think Americans and Third World citizens should view European diplomats, polititicians, and foreign policy the same way a women might view a small man driving a powerful sports car. He appears rich and powerful but there is no real power there. There is no powerful European army despite the combined economic might of the European Union. Europe is not approaching irrelevance. Europe is irrelevant. America - speaking in military terms - is free to act how they choose how they act in Iraq. It is possible that China or Russia could oppose America but in this case unlikely. America consults with Europe only out of courtesy. Someone else agrees... Kinda anyway. Europe should grow some.... (No that is going to far. I don't want anybody who hasn't already gotten the joke to get it now.)