JIM BENNETT’S ADVICE TO EUROPE: Be careful what you wish for — you might get it. “Americans must stop equating ‘Europe’ with the European Union. Europeans often complain about the failure of Americans to discern fine yet significant nuances in local situations. Thinking of Europe and the European Union as the same thing is precisely a failure to discern an important difference, although it is probably not the nuance European intellectuals had in mind.”

I also like his suggestion for moving NATO headquarters to Warsaw or Budapest. (I’ll bet Nick Denton would agree with him).

UPDATE: Reader Matt Crandall writes: “How about the Europeans stop equating all ‘Americans’ with cowboys? Perhaps the Europeans would also like to discover the significant nuances in our fifty states.” Heh. I don’t know — moving NATO HQ is one thing, but Crandall’s proposal seems a bit unrealistic to me. . . .