[Eva]

I am not saying that Europe blames America for its Muslim immigration. I am saying that they blame America for all the Muslim terrorism. They think that we are aggravating the situation by going on the offense against militant Islam in both Iraq and Israel. Europe was not afraid to help out in Afghanistan because they had nothing to lose there, and a more or less stable Afghanistan is better for building oil pipelines.

Nevertheless what is your definition of anti-Americanism? Well, it is indeed true that most western Europeans have other political gains than the current US-administration. It is indeed true that we have another way of living......

Careful, your supercilious arrogance is showing.

The slogan at the recent Munich Conference on Security (ironic that they hold it there) was Peace through Dialogue. That is all Europe is capable of, dialogue, but nothing ever comes of it and America pays the price (Israel, too). We suffered terror attack after attack, under the Clinton administration, and the spineless pervert treated it as though it was a civil crime. Europe is now full of Neville Chamberlains, all talk, no action.

[Atlantic Bridge]

The slogan at the recent Munich Conference on Security (ironic that they hold it there) was Peace through Dialogue. That is all Europe is capable of, dialogue, but nothing ever comes of it and America pays the price (Israel, too). We suffered terror attack after attack, under the Clinton administration, and the spineless pervert treated it as though it was a civil crime. Europe is now full of Neville Chamberlains, all talk, no action.

Well politics just as millitary operations have to be effective. We have to wait for the next election in the US. If your coming president is "democratic" I doubt that America is able to win the war in Iraq. She will retreat the troops and the country could either be conquered by Iran/SaudiArabia/Turkey or is going to fall into a anarchistic war zone. Sort of a new Somalia or Afghanistan. That means that your government wasted the lives of roundabout 3000 American servicemen and -women and a few hundred billion Dollars of American taxpayers. BTW - much more than America has been spending on the extremely successfull Marshall plan. I do not doubt that the motives of President Bush were good, but I am not sure if they were worth the price if the whole operation ends in a failure. Therefore it might have been wise to hear on some constructive critisism from the old continent.

Besides - you say that you suffered terror attack after terror attack. That might be true. But tell me - has anything changed? Just compare the American losses/month to terrorism of 1998 and those of today. You will not deny that things have gotten much worse. You weren't even able to catch Bin Laden. I do not want to back Clinton. Nevertheless, your foreign policy of the past few years was not very effective - in difference to ours.

Germany i.e. is very successfull in keeping their sector in Afghanistan silent since we do not soley rely on "fighting down the enemy". We cooperate with the local people and they like us. The quintessence is that we control the situation. BTW- We learned this kind of behaviour from American GIs who gave a hand to us after WWII.