Do you think it's a mental problem that is afflicting these people.
Tons of brain-washing by their leadership and liberal media.
They are just like the arabs who blame Israel and the US anytime there is a problem in their lives.
Western europe can no longer sustain their socialist welfare states. Its simply not working anymore. Nobody, but the immigrants are having children. None of their 20's aged citizens want to work.
So instead you have their leaders like Chirac and Schroeder demonizing the "anglo-saxon" capitalist system of the US as the source of all their problems. What they simply want is the US to become more like them so they don't look as bad. That's why they were soo excited about the prospect of Kerry being president.
Kerry said he wanted the US be more like Germany and France.
Kerry is cut from the same socialist left leaning cloth as guys like Schroeder and Chirac.