Of course, the US cannot be compared with a Union that is nowhere near becoming a United States of Europe. But if the contrast between the two sides of the Atlantic, between the continent of “Yes, we can” and the continent of “Yes, we should,” is so immense, it is for reasons that Europeans are refusing to face or even to discuss.
当然，美国与不可能成为欧洲合众国的欧盟不可同日而语。但如果大西洋两岸信奉“我们可以”和“我们应该”的两块大陆间对比如此强烈，个中的原因却正是欧洲不愿面对甚至讨论的。