The EU should have 100,000 troops in Iraq.
They are Godless and worthless as allies.
Love it or hate it - the EU is absolutely no ally of the US in Iraq. Nobody ever said or did so.
the whole idea of many NATO nations as allies post-Cold War has always bothered me....
I would suggest that if we really want to improve our relations with Germany we should re-construct the Soviet Union, as the only real reason our "allies" on the continent were playing friendly (usually) was the presence of the Soviets.
Without the Soviet menace, the Germans are now free once again to spit in our face without fear of the consequences. They are not our "allies" now, and to say they ever were would be using the term loosely. German "friendship" with America from 1945-1991 was a marriage of convience...nothing more.
Think about this...We stationed hundreds of thousands of men in West Germany, which allowed Bonn to develop their industry instead of worrying about their self defense. Then We subsidized West Berlin and the Bonn government throughout the 1950's and early 1960's. We pumped up the German economy with liberal trade policies that helped the Germans become the leading exporting nation on the continent. The Berlin airlift, the Marshall Plan, the economic boost of military bases, etc. And in the end the Germans believe that it is the US that is the source of all the worlds problems...
But if we were as mean and nasty as the Germans really believe, it's a wonder we didn't impose the Mongenthau plan that we had discussed at the Quebec conference.