I think this is mostly about the left trying to manipulate elections.
Do you remember that in the 2000 elections, the Dems were sending out absentee ballots to US expats living in Europe, all of whom were voting for the Dems, but most likely wouldn't have bothered to vote, except that the Dems were soliciting them. And in the meantime the same Dems didn't want to count the votes of our troops.
Yes, I agree. The left does try to manipulate elections. But have a look at how some 400,000 Italians in North, Central and South America voted--collectively, pretty much the way those in Italy voted.
There's too much anti-American sentiment in all of Europe, except that most of Poland is on our side. And the most pro-American country on the planet that I know of is India. That info is from various surveys over the past few years.
The ransoms paid for the Simonas and that other chick were disgusting, too. The money went to the terrorists in Iraq!
Hopefully, western Europe will get closer to us while working on the Iran problem.
Come to think of it, nearly half of our own country is anti-American (the Democrats).