Aren't The French Smarter?

The New York Times, without coming right out and saying so, seems to be admitting that Howard Dean is indeed full of shit, just as Joe Lieberman said he was, and that last week's terror alert was not political theater after all.

But, the French don't worry about terror. Shouldn't we emulate them?

In a measure of how little the latest alerts raised concern in Europe, the European Union's counterterrorism director, Gijs de Vries, remained on vacation.