[FairOpinion]

Apparently they haven't heard that "a friend in need is a friend indeed". When we needed their support against Saddam, they not only weren't there to support us, but actively worked against us, so now they think they can fool us by a few well chosen words, pretending to be our friends, until they stab us in the back the next time the occasion arises.

Europe needs us way more than we need them, and until they recognize that, I can't for the life of me see why we should give them the time of day, even.

[Drango]

To bolster Europe's image

Wait, wait...I'm getting a flash...I know...A Film with Woody Allen...Have him say something about French kissing his daughter wife.

[Rudder]

Americans boycotted French wines

Editor asleep at the wheel. It's 'Americans continue to boycott French wines.'

[Constitutionalist Conservative]

European leaders must reach out beyond New York and Washington and tell the American heartland about ``our brand of democracy''...

Okay, and then we'll tell you about constitutional republicanism. DOWN WITH DEMOCRACY!

[Tai_Chung]

The memo says that the EU's goal at next week's U.S.-EU summit in Washington will be ``to reassert the fundamental importance of the relationship'' with the United States, which was severely strained after several key European nations refused to back the war in Iraq.

The Europeans will fail because they still miss the point. The US relationship is not strained because France and Germany refused to back the war in Iraq. The relationship is strained because France and Germany attacked the integrity of the United States and actively worked to undermine the US war in Iraq and elsewhere. They could not have done more against the US if they had officially been our enemy.

If the EU wants to conduct a propaganda campaign, they should forget about the American heartland and start with the European heartland. Europe's anti-Americanism must stop!

[skeeter]

`There remains, however, the question of public perception,'' the document says. ``Mutual suspicion and a resort to rather crude stereotyping have begun to infect public perceptions mutually. We cannot afford to allow this to degenerate.''

Read 'lets get back to the good old days when only Europeans harbored crude perceptions'.

[Ancesthntr]

European leaders must reach out beyond New York and Washington and tell the American heartland about ``our brand of democracy'' to improve Europe's image in the United States, according to a memorandum submitted for discussion at the European Union summit.

Well, let's see: European countries (in general - we do have some friends there) can start improving relations by being at least a LITTLE bit grateful for the tens of thousands of dead that we contributed to the cause of European freedom, not to mention the TRILLIONS of dollars spent over 50 years to keep the Bear from taking a drink from the English Channel. They might improve relations further by growing a collective pair when it comes to relations with tyrants that pay, arm, train and shelter mass-murdering terrorists (you see, for some strange reason we Americans have this rather intense dislike of such people, esp. since 9/11).

``There remains, however, the question of public perception,'' the document says. ``Mutual suspicion and a resort to rather crude stereotyping have begun to infect public perceptions mutually. We cannot afford to allow this to degenerate.''

There were extreme examples, too: Americans boycotted French wines and French fries were renamed ``Freedom'' fries in the House cafeteria on Capitol Hill.

At the same time, some European media have characterized President Bush as a reckless cowboy.

Extreme examples of crude stereotyping include boycotting wine and renaming food, but not calling the President of the US a "reckless cowboy"?! How about all of the cartoons of Bush with a Hitler mustache that the article so conveniently didn't mention? What color is the sky in Europe?

No, the Euroweenies STILL don't get it. Maybe the Socialism that they've been ingesting for 2 or 3 generations has permanently dulled their reasoning ability, because I don't think that they WILL get it until they call on Uncle Sucker to clear out some uniformed trespassers.

The cheese-eating surrender monkeys should be glad that I'm not the President - because if I ever found out that they were hiding Saddam or his sons (not entirely unlikely), I'd send over a posse to retrieve them, dead or alive - THEN they'd know what a cowboy is. And I'd give the press conference announcing the action from atop a horse or from a firing range.

I guess that I can't hide my feelings for the 'weenies too well. How un-PC of me. :>)

[Temple Owl]

"France has neither winter nor summer nor morals--apart from these drawbacks it is a fine country."

- Mark Twain's Notebook

[OpusatFR]

"There remains, however, the question of public perception,'' the document says. ``Mutual suspicion and a resort to rather crude stereotyping have begun to infect public perceptions mutually. We cannot afford to allow this to degenerate. ""

Way too late for that. The crude stereotyping started with Europe, not us, and has to end there. As long as they persist in labeling Bush a ~cowboy~ which to me is a great icon of this America, and forgetting that we choose our leaders here, they can stick this propaganda.....

The Europeans have done massive damage to their own countries and I will not set foot in them again.

[Shermy]

Rather than repeating criticism of Washington's unilateral actions,

Bzzzzzt!

[Desron13]

``We must sell or market Europe more effectively and expose Americans to our brand of social..er democracy.''

What a weannie!

[rudypoot]

I think they want their "controlling of America" illusion back.

[McGavin999]

If they want to bolster their image, they might try doing something to stop the America bashing in their own countries. Until that happens, expect the US to ignore their bleating. We WON'T do business with people who hate us, PERIOD.

They have apparently hated us for a long time, we just didn't know it. Now we do.

[q_an_a]

the comment "We must sell or market Europe more effectively and expose Americans to our brand of democracy.''

Folks we called your type of democracy Socialism. We spent 50 years fifty communism and lost over a million men fighting the National Socialists in Germany. We don't want what you are selling.

[RightWhale]

It is about time to separate, in our deliberations, the Euro political leadership from the people. Many of the people are as frustrated as anyone else with their leadership, but it is very difficult to make changes. We can't say 'the French this,' and 'the Germans that, or 'the Italians the other.' Their political arrangements are more complicated than ours, it's a free-for-all. Just remember that in travelling in parts of the Italian countryside, the tourist's wallet is considered fair game: stay alert.

[thedugal]

Gee, that's funny. According to Hillary, it's Bush's responsibility to repair relations with Eurpoe.

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