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They should have to beg on camera in a new reality-tv show called, "Who Wants to Participate in Civilization?". Hey, actually, that could solve all our problems. Settle it on reality TV. Put Bush and Chirac on an island and...no, wait, Chirac is USED to not bathing and eating horrible food, he has an unfair advantage, I take that bag.

Any article with "French beg" in the title I am happy to read these days. :p

Further point -- America doesn't need to "understand" Europe. Or the "Arab street". We understand these people. We got STABBED IN THE BACK by some, but we even sort of expected that. And we understand the Arab street hates us. Gee, maybe that's why they try to keep KILLING us. :-)

No, no, Americans understand, but it's time...that the French started trying to understand America. Or Europe started trying to understand America. Or the Arab street started trying to understand America.

THAT'S where the knowledge gap is. Not over here. OVER THERE. After eight years of Clinton softness (12, if you count Bush I, who was soft on multilateral issues and sympathetic to the UN), Europe doesn't understand. They've forgotten what it's like when the Slumbering Giant wakes up and all of a sudden we have a President who is saying EXACTLY what he means and *following through* on his talk with hard action.

They're in shock.

And, I would add, they're also probably in awe.

Bottom line, though: They're DEFINITELY in perpetual *ENVY* (not jealousy, ENVY -- the Luciferian urge to destroy what you can't have).