"The European attitude toward America seems to be 'you must intervene in the Balkans to lead us in the fight against the twilight, but we won't follow you into Afghanistan to battle against abject darkness.'

"For those who thought that the level of European appeasement could not be surpassed following the Dutch murderers, the opera and cartoon fiascoes, the pope's remarks or the Iranian kidnapping of British sailors, we are now to listen to the Archbishop of Canterbury's admission that the implementation of Shariah law in Britain is 'unavoidable; and probably useful as well.

"Never was so much surrendered by so few to so many. The new multicultural and relativist British elite in just a decade or so has managed to make, in comparison, the 12th-century England of Thomas Becket seem humane."