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Now Poland is starting to be seen in Western Europe as a dangerously bigoted country and America’s Central European poodle.

Their is a lot of topics that could be discussed in this article. The main thing that strikes me is the Anti-America thread winding through the article. Rather than discuss Poland's tendency through the school of hard knocks to lean towards the right much like main strem America (It could well be mentioned that America also bore the brunt of this past centuries fighting), they are attacked by being called "America's poodle".

This is a typical name-calling/no substance response which appeals to youngsters who haven't experienced enough of the world to understand it's intricacies and are swayed by a catchy sound byte.

When Poland shows a willingness to allow advanced military technology on their soil, it isn't pointed out that Poland's recent past gives it great reason to advance militarily so they can protect themselves in the future.

The author pins Poland's so-called 'image problem' on outdated Old-europe stereotypes of the country. This is partly correct, but not quite how the author paints it.

A better analogy would be the rude awakening Old-Europe was given when W. was re-elected and it suddenly dawned on them that maybe America truly was as right leaning as they had refused to believe.

They are in for another rude awakening when it comes to Poland, Poland is not a babe in the woods cut from the same panzy socialist cloth as they are, but in fact has a much more mature world view than they do as a result of their many years of struggles.

Well, that was more than I intended to write on the subject, but once I got started the words just flowed. Sorry :)