[meandog]

Jealosy?

[Numbers Guy]

85% of Germans, 80% of French, 73% of Britons and 68% of Italians said they believed that the United States is acting in its own interest in the war on terrorism

Well, duhhhhhhh . . .

[ZinGirl]

found that out when she decided to throw a Fourth of July party for British friends

the whole idea behind the US "Fourth of July" is because we kicked British a$$...maybe that's why they got snotty at the party?

[sinkspur]

It's obvious they are very, very disturbed by the power America now has."

Nah. It's about power. Both economic and military.

We got it; they don't, they never will and they know it.

Plus none of these piss-ant Euro countries have one bit of leverage over the United States on anything.

Just think of what a helpless feeling that's got to be.

[Wphile]

85% of Germans, 80% of French, 73% of Britons and 68% of Italians said they believed that the United States is acting in its own interest in the war on terrorism.

Well, duh!!

[Bikers4Bush]

They all need us more than we need them.

[SamAdams76]

They just hate us because we didn't become "victims" and wait for the world community to send us aid. We destroyed the Taliban in Afghanistan in a matter of weeks and didn't sit around waiting for the UN to make their resolutions and impose their silly sanctions. We cleaned up the mess in NYC and at the Pentagon quickly and efficiently and got back to business. Furthermore, we haven't even begun to exact our revenge yet. In a few more years, we are going to completely redraw the maps in the Middle East. Most of all, we did it ourselves and we don't need anybody and that really pisses them off.

[skeeter]

Jealosy?

Probably, to a degree.

But since expressing contempt for country & fellow countrymen is dangerous to one's career these days I believe its more likely our own cowardly American liberals finding their voice through their beloved European proxies.

[mikegi]

This isn't just a US vs. the world issue. It's the standard top dog vs. everyone else. I used to work for the "Evil Empire" of software and saw the same thing (at least once a week I see it here on FR). Everything we did "sucks". Of course, when I would try to get the complainers to throughly evaluate the supposed "suckage" and find its cause, I would get nothing but vague explanations.

It's "cool" to cut down the powerful. Makes some people feel good. Nothing new.

[Always Right]

Desai and others blame what seems to be a wave of new U.S. policies that they regard as selfish and unilateral, stretching back to President Bush's refusal last year to support the international treaty on global warming.

LOL! Our desire not to tax our economy out of existance and give the Europeans are great economic advantage over us in the name of phoney science is why they hate us. Europe is a bunch of whinney-ass losers. I hate them too!

[Consort]

If they're angy with us, we must be doing something right.

[CJ Wolf]

"Why," she blurted out, "does everybody hate us?"

If you read the foreign papers you can see why, it's rife with anti-american propaganda. They are victims of their media, they, like most sheep, believe what they read.

[PhilipFreneau]

Last night on the PBS McNeil/Lehrer report one of the panelists stated that the European people support the U.S. War on Terrorism. However, he clarified, the elites (which includes the highly anti-American leftist European media) do not. Note that is the same lack of support we get in America from our leftist media and 'intellectual' elites. Leftists band together, and they hold a lot of propaganda power; but they are not the majority by any means.

[Semper Paratus]

The Euros thought W.Clinton was a swell and dandy leader.
That's all I needed to know about them.

[CROSSHIGHWAYMAN]

In the popular Straw Poll BBC radio show July 26, Kaldor debated with Washington Post reporter T. R. Reid whether "American power is the power of the good." She argued that the U.S. role as the sole superpower was a danger to the rest of the world.

Would they have been more comfortable with the Soviet Union as the world's sole superpower?

Europe's history is replete with centuries of war, some started because of ego or small areas of land.

[Chi-townChief]

bump

[tet68]

As though we CARE!

[rudypoot]

"In April, the German news magazine Der Spiegel reported that less than half (48%) of Germans consider the United States a guarantor of peace in the world, compared with 62% who did in 1993. Nearly half ? 47% ? rated Americans as aggressive rather than peaceful (34%)."

Europeans just don't get it: The US defends freedom at all costs, not peace at all costs.

"He says bin Laden has "gleefully exploited" the United States' poor public image."

And thus terribly misjudged our character and strength.

[Timocrat]

One real problem is that visiting Americans tend to interact with the chattering classes( media,academics,show business etc). Imagine the situation if a European only talked to the Dan Rathers, Martin Sheens etc in this country.

Also remember their grand plan for a unified Europe that would rival the US and Russia in Economic and military terms has proved to be a paper tiger that isn't working.

Their real problem is they want the benefits of a free market society without the risks and hard work in building it.

The US has nothing to apologise to them about, they overspend on Social programs, spend nothing on defence, they are swamped by third world immigrants, take massive vacations and they still keep electing the same socialists who got them into their mess in the first place. Their economies are not producing new jobs and their manufacturing base is shrinking.

Europeans are facing a world where economic and social flexibility is at a premium and they have little or none.

[Mr. Jeeves]

"Why do people attack Americans?" asks Tiny Waslandek, a social worker in Amsterdam, Netherlands. "Because they have a big, big mouth and they mind everybody's business."

Maybe if you would stop smoking pot and mind your own business when it comes to European security, we wouldn't have to do it for you.

[chimera]

Its just the usual whining. The old line about leading, following, or getting the freak out of the way is truer now than ever. And those who follow or are left in the dust will naturally take potshots at the leader out of frustration at their own impotence and self-hatred because they know their own weakness.

Leaders always take their share of shots from the peanut gallery. The important thing is to take the heat and remain true to your ideals. Reagan did it and he won the cold war and defeated, without firing a shot, what was then the most dangerous geopolitical rival this country has ever faced. Bush now has to deal with a slimier and shadowy and potentially as deadly an enemy. I think he is up to the job, but the Eurocrats will be there at every turn to try to tear him down. Like Reagan, he has to keep on keepin' on.