Europe: "Soft Power" or Powers Gone Soft?

Victor Davis Hanson writes brilliantly, once again, (or should I say, as usual), about the current state of affairs regarding the War on Terror.

His article deals specifically with the confrontation (if such a one-sided situation can be called a confrontation) between Great Britain and Iran over the seizure by the latter of 15 British service members. He goes on, however, to elaborate on the failure of Europe's "soft power" efforts to influence rogue nations and the decline of Europe's ability, and even its will, to defend itself against the evil forces that still abound in the world.

Read the entire article, however, these paragraphs sum up his sentiments:

"In the future, smaller nations in dangerous neighborhoods must accept that in their crises ahead, their only salvation, even after the acrimonious Democratic furor over Iraq, is help from the United States.
America alone can guarantee the safety of the noble Kurds, should Turkey or Iran choose one day to invade. America alone will be willing or able to supply Israel with necessary help and weapons to ensure its survival.
Other small nations — a Greece, for example — with long records of vehement anti-Americanism should take note that the choice facing them in their rough neighborhoods is essentially solidarity with the United States or the embrace of Jimmy Carter diplomacy or Stanley Baldwin appeasement.
Quite simply, there is now no NATO, no EU, no U.N. that can or will do anything in anyone’s hour of need."