A LARGE OCEAN MAKES CRUSTY NEIGHBORS: I've been meaning to write about this fabulous article by Robert Kagan for a while now. Kagan describes the differences between the American and European approaches to the war on terrorism. It's a serious piece, and he is more willing to give credit to the European position than he usually is. As previously noted, the European skepicism of military force is not based on crude calculation of interests, but in a powerful form of idealism - but one which ignores certain inconvenient realities. Steven Den Beste explains what those realities are.