SOMETHING NO EUROPEAN LEADER WOULD SAY

The Guardian's Timothy Garton Ash:

I don't want to overstate this. One is still gobsmacked by things American Republicans say. Take the glorification of the military, for example. In his speech, Bush insisted "there is no higher calling than service in our armed forces". What? No higher calling! How about being a doctor, a nurse, a teacher, an aid worker? Unimaginable that any European leader could say such a thing.

There is no higher calling than putting your life on the line for others. Anyway, soldiering is a higher calling than that recommended by Bubba:

"... I urge all Americans to rise to the highest calling in our land -- the calling of active citizenship," Clinton said in his weekly radio address.

So, an activist lefty is the equal of a soldier. I think I'm gonna vomit.