An Old European in the New World Order

Old Europe (as Mr. Rumsfeld calles it), led by Old Rome (as we Byzantines call it), is standing up to our perhaps well-intentioned but certainly ill-advised president. As one who has citizenship in the European Community, as one raised as a Roman Catholic who is still in communion with the Church he was so long a member of, I am cheered no end. How long Europe can get away with its resistance to the dictates of Empire, it may be long enough to restrain us from the worst atrocities against the civilian population of Iraq. Civilization is often preserved by the delaying actions of the defeated -- recall the legend of King Arthur's stand against the Saxons.

I have the following from the Zenit news agency. Please read it, especially if you support this war and are tempted to dismiss all critics, or if you oppose it and want to see who is with you.

Frank
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