Crime waves committed across Europe by “migrants” and authorities’ habit of punishing law-abiding citizens for pushing back are just two crises suggesting Europe’s fate hangs in the balance, asserts Victor Davis Hanson in American Greatness. Add to these debt-bloated governments, unsustainable social spending, feckless foreign policy and economy-choking regulations and, Hanson concludes, Europe’s path is increasingly diverging from that of a reinvigorated America.
Toppling a Communist Empire for $2.7 Million
Though widely thought of as focused on waterboarding terrorists or poisoning foreign potentates, it was by smuggling paper that the CIA achieved its most monumental triumph. R.M. Gerecht in a book review for The Washington Free Beacon charts how the late Cold War-era operation to flood Poland with Western books, magazines, printing supplies and audio recordings fatally weakened the country’s Communist dictatorship, setting the stage for the downfall of the entire Soviet empire. Total cost: US$2.7 million.
