HOW MANY POLES DOES IT TAKE TO ...? No, it's not going to be a joke. While the rest of the Midwest was telling Polish jokes, the number of people with Polish roots living in Chicago exceeded the number of people living in Warsaw. Perhaps that's another geopolitical implication of Libertarian Samizdata's take on Poland's purchase of Fighting Falcons. From the UK, it looks thus: "Could it be that the above-mentioned 'lobbying' was about more than jet-fighters and that the Bush administration has decided it would be good strategy to gently lure the Poles away from the twitching tentacles of Brussels?"

Not to mention that it will play well with a lot of Reagan Democrats in the States.