When You Lie Down With Weasels

The to-hell-with-Old-Europe movement, so popular four months ago, took a blow to the kidneys this weekend when President Bush gave a speech in Krakow about our Special Relationship with the Euro-ingrates:

America owes our moral heritage of democracy and tolerance and freedom to Europe. [?]

To meet these goals of security and peace and a hopeful future for the developing world, we welcome, we need the help, the advice and the wisdom of our European friends and allies. [?]

Europe and America will always be joined by more than our interests. Ours is a union of ideals and convictions. We believe in human rights, and justice under law, and self-government, and economic freedom tempered by compassion. We do not own these beliefs, but we have carried them through the centuries. We will advance them further and we will defend them together.

But, despite Bush?s new "Vive La France" je ne sais quois, he did get off a few good cracks about the importance of being "willing to take up arms against evil," and how Poland should not "be told that you must now choose between Europe and America."