From the conclusion of the piece:
"This week has made the roots of that disbelief clear: A big part of the United States is pumped up for a mission to demonstrate in the Middle East what Bush called "the transformative power of liberty."
Transformative upheaval is not the European thing these days: Been there, done that. So the Continent is worried."
None of the "transformative upheaval" that Europe ever went through was in the direction of liberty, but rather a movement towards tyranny (still is, in fact.) Europe is a moral midget. And Cohen is a moral relativist. Neither is adequate to the times we live in.
These European snobs will benefit from our efforts and they will never acknowledge it but their freedom will be more secure because of our efforts. Our brave soldiers will have died once more for them and because of them, because they tolerated evil and profited from evil and cared only for themselves.
Do they ever look at history? Do they ever remember that they pacified and ran from Hitler? Do they ever see a threat until it is too late? Are they so cowardly that they can't stand up to evil unless it is popular to do so? Can the French not see that their placation of terrorists will not protect them in the long run?