European Anti-Americanism

Over the last 3 years, the level of anti-Americanism in Europe has grown to a fever pitch - it always existed, it has merely become more open and noticeable of late. Dennis Boyles has a solution for anti-Americanism.

This is a good sign, and points toward a solution for the pesky problem of European anti-Americanism, if Bush wins. For "Why Europeans don't like Bush" has a shiny obverse, which is "Why Americans care less and less." The commonplace observation is that the end of the Cold War means that the Europeans no longer have to rely on the U.S. for protection, so they can be as self-serving and duplicitous as they wish. But what Americans seem to finally be understanding is that what the end of the Cold War really means is that the U.S. no longer has to give a damn about a European "alliance" at all — especially one dominated by French and Germans. The solution to rampant, hysterical, angry anti-Americanism is cold, practical, systematic anti-Europeanism.