November 13, 2003
Europe Hates America – Part 2
My Free Markette was playing with one of his chums last week. Little chum is a good kid, notwithstanding his parents’ misguided liberalism. During the afternoon, my little beacon of transatlantic solidarity was overheard saying,
“No, America is our friend because they helped us in the First & Second World Wars.”
Out of the mouths of babes and all that but it set me thinking & readers, you know how dangerous that is!
Most of Europe despises America, for many reasons. Half of it could only be liberated with US aid; the other half got its collective arses kicked in the process. The whole place only was rebuilt because the Marshall Plan. From the British perspective, just remember in WWII, 25% of our ammunition and 50% of our tanks were supplied by the US, as well as almost our replacement merchant shipping & nearly all of our transport aircraft.
I already hear cries of ‘yank-lover’ but I make no bones about this being a pro-US blog. Now I’m no expert on geo-politics, but Sir Winston Churchill was and as he said in his broadcast from Washington in May 1943,
“The experience of a long life and the promptings of my blood have wrought in me the conviction that there is nothing more important for the future of the world than the fraternal association of our two peoples in righteous work both in war and peace.”
The eco-weenies continue to drone on that America is populated by narrow-minded cowboys that have no comprehension of the World stage, pursues a damaging unilateral foreign policy, think that Disneyland is the cultural peak & only want to eat in Taco Bell. It is the view of your correspondent however, that the EU’s non-intervention in policies that cause huge problems; witness Bosnia. The exception to this is of course, Germany – they keep invading everybody in an attempt to force entire populations to listen to 3-day Wagnerian operas.
This dislike of America is deep seated and to a greater extent, has blinded EU leaders to recent World events. Most of Europe is at best spinelessly ambivalent to the War on Terrorism; France and Germany actively collaborating in their opposition (nothing new about the French collaborating with the Germans eh?).
But this loathing goes much deeper and steams from envy – Europeans hate America because it is so much richer & has higher standards of living. All because American working folks produce more of just about everything in any year than their European counterparts.
This theme will continue in Part 3