time for some european politics

[Occhidiangela]

The impression I get from most Europeans towards Americans is similar to the mindset when we entered WWI: "Yeah, sure we like you.  Just drop off what we need in men and material and let us make all the decisions.  You Yanks can't seem to ever get it right (read: do what we want)."
What I see from many Americans at this time toward Europe is "Fine, we don't need you, we'll just sit over here and act like the spoiled brats everybody says we are."

I see it demonstrated over and over.  We pledge foriegn aid, it isn't enough.  (Not to mention the fact that only government donations were counted for tsunami relief, not private donations by American citizens.)  We pledge money to fight AIDS, that isn't good enough because we retained control of how it's spent and didn't just give it over to the powers that be.

Now I'll retreat to the safety of my Nomex firesuit and hope I don't get burned to badly in the flames.
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If you want to understand what is behind it all, look at the secularist attacks for the last 200+ years, starting about 1789. That is where the antipathy for America's core has its roots, though that is just one strain of it. The post 1848 strain of anti Americanism is more pernicious. It is the fear of the peculiar American strain of the Scots-Irish legacy of the indomitable man as sovereign in himself, and willing to fight, bleed, and die to remain so. Some call it "Jacksonian" others things less charitable.

It scares the self important lying intellectual snobs of Europe, it scares the lying intellectual snobs of America, and it scares the insecure intellectuals who created Communism and its bastard children. It scares the lying, two faced scum who try to perpetrate the concept of PC: the so-called Frankfurt School.

So they attack it, try to work around it, undermine it, sabotage it, and always have done so. This is not new, as you pointed out. Not hardly.

What's new is the tools. It is information age warfare. Iraq is a diversion. The war's aim is to bind the individual to the chains of the lying intellectual class of self important meglomaniacs. What is gratifying is to see the voters of Europe wake up, and show some sparks of their own spirit.

War is something you fight to win, or you lose.

Occhi