Mark Steyn: The Spanish dishonored their dead

Last Friday, for a brief moment, it looked as if a few brave editorialists on the Continent finally grasped that global terrorism is a real threat to Europe, and not just a Bush racket. But even then they weren't proposing that the Continent should rise up and prosecute the war, only that they be less snippy in their carping from the sidelines as America gets on with it.

John Ellis also expressed hope that the Europeans would “get it” only to be “proven wrong in record time.”