'With the United States increasing military spending, there could be a future... in which "the U.S. does the fighting, the U.N. does the feeding, and the EU does the funding."'

Resurfacing Animosity Awaits Bush in Europe -T.R. Reid, Washington Post.

The above statement doesn't seem to far off, considering the US's increasingly unilateral, "I came here to do two things, drink beer and kick some ass. Look's like we are almost out of beer!" approach...