Hannan to Obama: Exit Brexit

Dan Hannan writes in The Washington Examiner,

Barack Obama thinks nothing of telling the United Kingdom that we should be a province of the European Union (EU).

...The EU is showing its age. It's a leftover from the top-down, dirigiste, big-bloc thinking of the 1950s. This might explain President Obama's soft spot for it. But the rest of the world is going in the opposite direction. In an era of Skype and cheap air travel, regional customs unions look obsolete. The idea that we should meekly acquiesce in the rulings of transnational bureaucracies seems terribly 20th century.

Take another look at your Declaration of Independence. See how aptly the colonists' grievances might now be leveled against the EU.

...On June 23, Britain will vote on whether to recover her independence. Americans, of all people, should sympathize.

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