Mark Steyn noted here yesterday how peculiar it is that Francis Fukuyama now casually assumes that the European experiment of transcending sovereignty is a good idea that should be emulated. It’s worth adding that, on this point, he and other intellectuals — and of course Europeans — are in agreement with Militant Islamists.

The Ayatollah Khomeini quites specifically opposed national sovereignty and he, too, favored a trans-national rule of law — although unlike Europeans he believed the correct alternatives are religious identification and sharia law.

“Patriotism,” he memorably instructed, “is another name for paganism.”