Should the U.S. just call it quits and join the E.U.?

While the subject of the title only makes up a small fraction of the discussion, the serious nature of the handling of the topic made my heart flutter. Anyway, 

Henry Farrell, a poli-sci guy at George Washington U shares ideas with Jacob Heilbrunn of the publication The National Interest on blogginghead.tv

The link to their conversation is here. 

Highlights, thoughts, observations:

*Obama is a world citizen! That's what they said, I'm just reporting.

*Obama has seized the foreign policy initiative in the campaign. 

*Will there be a foreign policy civil war within the Republican party?

*I want to have pizza and beer and conversation with Henry Farrell. Can somebody hook us up?

*Farrell thinks Krauthammer's evil. To which I say...duh.

*Is all this talk about bombing Iran serious?

*Heilbrunn thinks McCain's more of a neo-con than Bush and more radical. (Damn.)

*Heilbrunn says McCain should bash Obama on domestic issues like tax and spend. Farrell says McCain is ignorant of domestic issues.

*Heilbrunn says Bush has left an enormous mess to clean up. To which I say...duh.

*Germany will balance it's budget next year. To which I say...wow.

*They have a serious discussion of the US joining the Euro, or even the EU. Farrell, of Ireland, therefore the EU, thinks not. Funny.

*Russia in the EU. Farrell says not in a hundred years.

*Farrell thinks its disgraceful that the EU hasn't admitted Turkey. I agree and will bring that issue up in future posts.

*Heilbrunn questions more effort in Afghanistan. To which I say...After 7 years why doesn't Afghanistan look like Iowa? Without the tragedy and distraction of Iraq we could have Marshall-planned Afghanistan all the way into the first world by now. 

*I agree with Farrell that Pakistan is a huge problem. A problem almost completely unrecognized by the general population of the US.

*Heilbrunn used the word interstices. Oops, where's my dictionary. You should go look it up too, http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/interstices