Posted on 05/14/2004 9:55:12 PM PDT by MN_Mike
A year after the war in Iraq, discontent with America and its policies has intensified rather than diminished. Opinion of the United States in France and Germany is at least as negative now as at the war’s conclusion, and British views are decidedly more critical. Perceptions of American unilateralism remain widespread in European and Muslim nations, and the war in Iraq has undermined America’s credibility abroad. Doubts about the motives behind the U.S.-led war on terrorism abound, and a growing percentage of Europeans want foreign policy and security arrangements independent from the United States. Across Europe, there is considerable support for the European Union to become as powerful as the United States
Go for it! We could use the savings.
If Europe starts to like us then we better start worrying, until then let them ball.
Ironically enough, American discontent with Europe and the Muslim world has intensified even more . . .
Unfortunately, being the European Union, they are struggling to not become as powerful as Central America.
Wow, this ruined my whole weekend.
The surrender monkeys don't like us.
Take your whine and cheese and stuff it. Figure out that little aircraft carrier thing yet?
Oh, and the twice thwarted "world dominator" wanna-be's don't like us either ??
I am just crushed from the lack of support from these two, ummm, stalwart examples of "modern" governments.
Hey there, Mr. Frog, keep growing those shade trees, ok?
The Brits will continue to do what is right, and they know it. All they have to do is look across the Channel to know that.
LVM
Oh please let them break off from us completely Who cares!
They don't have a chance of rivaling us militarily. Sure they might like to, but when the rubber hits the road it would take too much money away from their beloved social programs. I'd actually expect them to make further cuts to their militaries in the future as their populations rapidly age and suck their treasuries dry.
This not only rewards Poland (and crushes the failing German economy), but it gives us a bases to keep watch over Europe.
"Mistrust of America in Europe Ever Higher"
This id why the Iraqis will never appreciate what we are doing for them.
We baled Europes filthy arses out twice, freed them once from the Nazi yoke, protected the cowardly bastards from the commies for over 50 years, and they hate us for it.
I say give the Ruskies a green light and say sic'em. The samer with the Iraqis, to hell with the Islamist bastards, let them rot in their Arab Alah Akabar hell.
The entire bloody world goes to bed at night reasonably safe because of spilt American blood protecting their worthless Arses.
I am rapidly becoming a total isolationalist, bring'em home, slam shut and seal the borders. As to the the world, frig'em all and feed'em fish heads.
I hope the United States will have the guts to never help the Euroweeniewimps ever again. Britain is our only ally and only about 35% of the people there like us. We can no longer afford to care.
Odd, though, that for as much as they dislike Americans in "old Europe" they still like our money.
The Brits are another story. Like too much of Europe, the Brits are anxious to deliver their sovereignty and history to the control of a handful of leftist idiots in Belgium. When the EU implodes (as it surely will), who will the Brits and other Europeans look to to extricate them from the mess they got themselves into?
By then, they might be told to keep looking. They made their mess, they can clean it up.
This is an historical departure for us.
I love happy news stories.
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