Nuts!: The American president is furious that his European allies have failed to deploy their own warships in support of his Arabian Sea flotilla. This from a leader who has for more than a year been berating both the European Union and NATO. A president with designs on Greenland as well as a new cozy rapport with Russia’s Vladimir Putin, Europe’s sworn enemy. Before the United States invaded Iraq in 2003, George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, and Colin Powell, the critical actors in this drama, worked for months with Europe, NATO, and the United Nations to achieve a pro-war consensus. Most eventually agreed to back Washington, though with reservations. Now a president who does as he wishes, dodging his own Congress, wants Europe to cheerlead him. Europe should do no such thing. It should behave as American Brigadier General Anthony McAuliffe did during the Battle of the Bulge in the waning stages of World War II. His troops surrounded, he was served with a note from a German commander demanding he immediately surrender, to which he famously replied with a single word: “Nuts!”