As someone who travels pretty extensively outside the United States -- usually a couple or three times each year due to work -- I'm aware of the negative impressions many Europeans hold about us Americans. But having spent the past two weeks vacationing in Europe, even I was surprised by the increase in anti-American feelings expressed by German, Dutch, French and Italian citizens, especially at a time when you'd expect our European "friends" to be doubly sympathetic due to the Hurricane Katrina catastrophe. Don't get me wrong. A great many Europeans I met during this vacation expressed strong, even emotional...