Mark Steyn's latest column once again presents us with the question of why we should ever care what the impotent Europeans have to say.

The EU has done a grand job of trumpeting its weakness as strength, but the fact remains that there's something hollow at the heart of European identity. You can't be a great power without great power: Slobodan Milosevic called the EU's bluff on that a decade ago.

Why the Democratic presidential hopefuls continue to trumpet the U.N. and NATO, when it's obvious that former is beholden to despots and thugocracies and the latter to pacifist moralizing (Britain and "New Europe" excepted), defies belief.