This would have been a much more intersting article if the author has been a Bush voter.
Well, let me try to fill the void. The author of this Sun Times article attempts to pass off cowardice as a virtue, rhetorically selling out her country to be in solidarity with the spineless and corrupt European Leftists.
I'm here in Shanghai - and there's a boatload of European ex-pats in the city. I'm playing guitfiddle at an Irish bar ("We have Country AND Western Gaelic")- and after a few incidents - I keep reminding all of the would-be debaters - "Didn't your mama ever tell you - never discuss politics or religion at a bar? And especially... an IRISH bar." This I learned from several Irish bars in Boston and San Francisco.
However, the few times I did engage - were pretty fun. These people are completely unarmed - both physically and polemically. Sorta like 'Rats - except even more out of it. I've enjoyed telling them things like "You people are parasites on the world civility we enforce", and "Yes, I play Grateful Dead stuff, and I'm a Republican - you think that's impossible because you are clueless as to the cultural movements in the US. We've realized it is not necessary to be stupid to be cool. You need to update your slavish attentions to our cultural fashions." All this with a big smile...because it IS fun to buff their little brains.
My favorite line to people who insisted they should be taken into account in our election process was "Well, the last I checked, England and Germany aren't states of the Union, but I've been away for awhile and maybe we've invaded and taken y'all over - so maybe you SHOULD have a say."
In general, though, the proper way to look at Europeans is as wayward children - who look to big daddy USA to lead the way. They don't admit this to themselves - and are truly relieved deep down when you have the gumption to look them straight in the eye and say "We ARE a superpower - and that involves responsibilites that you have the luxury of not having to be responsible for. We do, and we're going to deal with them."