Commenter Lindermayer is classic

Submitted by Richard (United Kingdom), Jan 14, 2003 at 13:10

A bit paranoid? As a Catholic raised amongst all these throngs of heaving fundamentalists, I never once heard any such intimation let alone comments. Your observations display bigotry rather than fact, and given the bizarre unfounded claim- I can only assume that you are EUROPEAN!

In truth, the most hypocritical, immoral and self-serving group of people in the world has to be the Europeans. Under the protection of the US which allowed them security and cashflow (from minimal spending on defense), Europe was able to rebuild itself and thankfully find a way to live with each other (the Balkans aside..). Now, having reflected on its navel for decades, it has the audacity to turn on the US out of jealousy, insecurity, spite, and mean-spiritedness, not to mention brazen political calculation, and launch a campaign to trash America and our people. Opinion leaders count and in the Middle East and elsewhere, Europe's rhetoric is noted and adopted. They, like the Saudis, are the leading cheerleaders for attributing all manner of ugly motivations to all that is American. They would countenance the European way, namely talk and pretend it works (witness: Bosnia, Kosovo, Serbia, Palestinian terrorists, Iraq). They are loath to admit that their success internally does not relate to the still Hobbesian reality of the world. To do so would hurt their ego.

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