LOOKS LIKE EUROPE IS getting behind the notion of invading Iraq. Yeah, you read that right:

A majority of the European Union’s 15 nations are now expected to support President George Bush’s plans for “regime change” in Iraq, and many of them are prepared to offer military support, a conference of American and European scholars on transatlantic relations concluded Saturday.

“The mood in France has changed after the dramas of the presidential election campaign and the bombing in Karachi that killed 11 French naval engineers last week,” said Jean Haine, who teaches international relations at Paris’s prestigious Sciences Po Institute. “Indeed, I expect France to seek to rejoin NATO’s unified military command later this year.”

It’s not all beer and skittles, as you’ll see if you read the whole piece, but it’s a lot better news than I expected. It certainly illustrates the stupidity of the Karachi bombing.

UPDATE: Den Beste says that the Europeans are just recognizing who they’re really dealing with.