Another reason we should have saved an A-bomb for Europe.

The Japanese are better allies than any nation in western Europe, and we nuked them twice. (Britannia does not count. They are protected by water. But they are going to regret that damn Chunnel one of these days.)

Get a load of this:

Euros for terrorists
(Inside Politics/The Washington Times)

"Who's funding the insurgents in Iraq? The list of suspects is long: ex-Baathists, foreign jihadists, and angry Sunnis, to name a few. Now add to that roster hard-core Euroleftists," U.S. News & World Report says.

"Turns out that far-left groups in Western Europe are carrying on a campaign dubbed Ten Euros for the Resistance, offering aid and comfort to the car bombers, kidnappers, and snipers trying to destabilize the fledgling Iraq government," reporter David E. Kaplan writes at www.usnews.com.

"In the words of one Italian website, Iraq Libero (Free Iraq), (some of my dumbass cousins! F.G.) the funds are meant for those fighting the occupanti imperialisti. The groups are an odd collection, made up largely of Marxists and Maoists, sprinkled with an array of Arab emigres and aging, old-school fascists, according to Lorenzo Vidino, an analyst on European terrorism based at the Investigative Project in Washington, D.C. 'It's the old anticapitalist, anti-U.S., anti-Israel crowd,' says Vidino, who has been to their gatherings, where he saw activists from Austria, Denmark, Germany, and Italy. 'The glue that binds them together is anti-Americanism.' "