11 August 2003 - European vacation

Put down your barbecue-flavored ice cream and listen. August is the cruelest month, because all the Europeans go on serious vacation and are lost to the practical world. This means that an American integrated power projection solution could blitz France at any moment, and no civilized being would know until it was too late for street protests.

Listen closely. Here’s the critical action item. Americans need vacations like that too!