VDH on Europe

Victor Davis Hanson, writing for National Review Online, about the extent to which U.S. military protection has subsidized European welfare states:

Europeans forgot that, just because they are not looking for war, it doesn’t mean that war might not look for them.

One solution to the "European problem" might be for the U.S. to announce a timetable to withdraw its protection of Europe. That would certainly make being a European more "interesting."