Fair enough point, I do get tired of the Euro bashing on FR.
I really like Frenchmen one-on-one. While I avert my eyes from the Fraulein in the skin-tight outfit asking me for directions, I do politely give her the directions. But Europe deserves to be bashed. In the previous century, European myopia and wrongheadedness has lead to the deaths of millions of Europeans, Asians, Africans, and the EU types still think that they are the wise elders, directing the benighted towards world peace, completely unaware of their own contradictions.