[...] President Jacques Chirac, desperately attempting to be relevant, gave an interview in which he proposed that the United Nations give Iraq at least three weeks to admit inspectors. If Saddam Hussein didn't behave this time, well, the United Nations would bring out the super-mean frown it reserves for true rogue states, like Israel and Texas.

Not to say Chirac doesn't want Saddam out. "One can wish for it. I do wish for it, naturally." Yes, and if wishes were Euros we'd all have a pile of ugly money.

He can wish for it because his nation, and the rest of the dithering EUnichs, are utterly incapable of doing anything about it. All they have is the full weight of their moral stature. You know, the moral gravity that comes from two millenniums of despotism, monarchy, fascism and communism, topped off with the red cherry of democracy the United States dropped after it saved them from their latest march into hell. [...]