[Callahan]

Maybe we bathe too often for them.

[Ichneumon]

Bookmark for later reading.

[Ditter]

Why do Europeans hate us? I wish I cared enough to read this article. Unfortunatly I don't.

[Qwinn]

Good article, thanks. Nice to know some of them are rational.

Qwinn

[BlueElephant]

I get sick of all this "we hate America because of its freedom." Hello? Why don't these people have the same vitrol against Canada, Sweden, Spain, France, etc? I am not that naive. It's not "freedo," it goes much deeper than that.

[FreedomPoster]

>>"Democracy tends to ignore, even deny, threats to its existence because it loathes doing what is needed to counter them," explained Revel. "It awakens only when the danger becomes deadly, imminent, evident. By then, either there is too little time left for it to save itself, or the price of survival has become crushingly high."

Who's got a Civil War II ping list?

[wayne_shrugged]

Why Do Europeans Hate America?

Europeans hate us? Yawn...

[Snuffington]

Revel is one of the happy few holding high the candle of Western Civilization. Sadly, it has its detractors on this side of the pond as well, and not all are on the left.

[McGavin999]

The democracies that will surely perish will be those who cannot tell the difference between good and evil, survival and ruin, freedom and tyranny.

This is the cancer of the left, and we've all recognized it for a long time. We just don't know what to do about it......yet.

[Mike Darancette]

Why do so many Europeans hate America?

No wonder, they probably get it from the RAT opposition and the Liberal media.

[Lancey Howard]

Revel is an impressive thinker.
One question that I would like to ask him is: Why do Americans not give a rat's behind what France thinks about anything? Surely the French can sense the disinterested American shrug everytime Europe shouts across the ocean. I have to believe that this frustrates the heck out of the leftist Euro-scum and contributes mightily to their hatred of the US. Oh well. Whatever. How about them Iggles?

[Allan]

Ping.
Revel.
One very intelligent Frenchman
(there are two or three)
whom I have been following for many years.

[Mr.Atos]

Ping!

This virulent anti-Americanism is not a matter of mere sociological interest. As Revel understands, this explains why the United Nations Security Council has become so ineffectual and why the United States has been forced to act unilaterally. As he explains, "Europeans' voluntary blindness with regard to these radical changes renders any American attempts at dialogue fruitless; as a result, America has no other option but to make unilateral decisions. How can you discuss a problem with people who deny its very existence?"

A European that understands what many Americans (Leftists) do not. Revel is cut from the same vine as Per Henrick Hansen of Denmark. Lend these Men an ear and all the support that you can. Any hope in unifying Western Civilization against the building theat will begin with Men such as these.

Thank you for the post, Ex-Dem.

[Beck_isright]

"Why Do Europeans Hate America? Jean-Francois Revel Explains

1. We smell good.
2. We don't whine as much as they do.
3. We smell good.
4. We are not as snotty or rude (well, Frisco is the exception).
5. We smell good.
6. We don't surrender when invaded or attacked in less than a year.
7. We smell good.
8. We work hard, Eurotrash doesn't.
9. We smell good.
10. We think Marx is evil, Euros don't.
11. We smell good.

[AFreeBird]

Good article. I'm gonna Google some more on this guy. He sounds like a modern day equivelant to Alex De Tocqueville. Someone I'm sure Mr. Revel has read.

[jocon307]

"Something sick lies at the heart of Western civilization. The democracies that will surely perish will be those who cannot tell the difference between good and evil, survival and ruin, freedom and tyranny."

Great post, thanks! This Crosswalk place keeps cropping up again and again for me. I think this is a good thing. This is certainly an excellent article. We can't go wobbly like the Euros, and the Brits need some help, too. I'm relying on the Brits to get their wits back on their own, but if they fail, we must help them. Truly these days, all civilization hangs in the balance.

"One ring to rule them all." Can't be permitted.

[APFel]

Wonderful article. Thank you.

[goodnesswins]

Saving this article for my Canadian friend who got her American citizenship for retirement...and thinks we should CARE about what Europe THINKS of us....

[Major_Risktaker]

While living in Italy and Austria I met no one who hated me or said anything bad about America. Below is a map of Europe and if anyone hates us is the political left because American has the courage to go it alone without getting permission from the Monarchs.

Most of Europe is with America and it is just the left that is losing power that has the problem.

I hear GW Bush is having dinner with the Queen of England next week and I wonder if he will bowwow down to this women. Bush may be the first American President to meet the the richest women in the world in this format.

So next week get ready for more noise from the looney left.

[The Great RJ]

What I find ironic is that these same leftest intellectuals who detest America seem to always want the good things that come from our shores. The computers and Internet they use to spread their claptrap is the direct product of the US space and military programs. The medical miracles they take for granted came from the US not the Soviets. The welfare utopias of western Europe have failed to give the average citizen near the standard of living that is typical in the US and the worker's paradise of Cuba causes people to risk their lives in 90 miles of open ocean sailing in flimsy makeshift boats and rafts to escape.