I’m not sure what to be more disturbed by – Boxer’s outdated women’s lib nonsense or her ignorance into military customs that mandates referring to all civilians as Sir and Ma’am. A US senator should know better. But Boxer’s pettiness demonstrates an odd sort negative self-image that drives some liberalism. I doubt that Sarah Palin would find no offense in being called Ma’am.

Russia has attacked a European nation (even if it is not yet in NATO or the EU). When the EU rebuffed Georgia’s entry into NATO recently, and therefore withheld the security protections that membership incurs, they were more interested in poking America and Bush in the eye. They sacrificed their neighbors to get in a cheep shot at America – and now Europe is being invaded.

And in his usually biting way, Strata skewers Europe and the Left:

Is Europe still a bunch of Neville Chamberlains, willing to sacrifice smaller nations in sure-to-fail effort to appease the predators? We know Obama is the epitome of Chamberlain model, still hoping for defeat in Iraq after we have already achieved victory! The world is be tested again, as it was on 9-11. Will it respond in a lesser way to the killing of civilians by military forces than it did to the killing of civilians by terrorists? Are we at the point were military invasions are less worthy of responding to than terrorist attacks?