james rogers jamesrbestcom wed 20021009 0648 frank bergmann wrote reasonable explication eu us differences according american journalist cited german magazine someone help american public perceives rest world basically thread defend using power correct assessment american public couldnt care less however us intelligence community correctly perceives threat isnt thirdworld many european developed nations aggressively engage covert operations american interests going years isnt even news things stepped recent years us dod none pleased better worse us relatively good game backwater wars proxies interests big players find current list top intelligence threats us youll find half countries list european people unaware aggressive things gotten recent years hand europeans used peace cozy postwar system external security issue security threads resolved giving money threatening people integrate wealthy sphere balkan palestinians bullshit european governments ruthlessly suppress real opposition obviously others us specops often brought dirty work inside europe european governments usually government advisors along mission ive always wondered deal got involved point weve acted assassins european governments inside borders citizens auspices governments recent years ancient history know specop guys left military specifically circumstances missions posted duty im certainly glad never assigned missions theater lot covert nastiness going nominally friendly european democracies regardless giving money people threaten never created meaningful peace history civilization call extortion guise lot current eu us issues explained difference perception current american unilateralism nobody wants help us american arrogance towards europe dont want anything ask growing rejection american policy europe want abolish law europe looking increasingly like basket case whatever problems us days europe looks worse going downhill faster us would want emulate european behavior european way things beyond us asking major policy advice europe like asking quack medical advice really dont see wrong unilateral anyway anyone join stampede heading cliff hope incessant kneejerk conformist screeching americans see coming europe doesnt actually represent views europeans various reasons im exactly cheerleader us government premises argument lame personal point americans percentage overall population ever left country even german construction workers regularly spend holidays spain im surprised paranoia growing im betting underestimating actual percentage vast majority people know lived worked traveled outside country one time another doubt europeans traveled anywhere near much western hemisphere americans despite best efforts france europe still center universe ill throw bone though americans consider europe drifting irrelevancy therefore ignore perspective american could look way impact europe america diminished greatly years love smell eurochauvinism morning first assume north american continent ethnically culturally homogenous anybody actually traveled throughout north america knows isnt true five major distinct cultures societies us alone never mind hundreds diverse regional subpopulations truly foreign apparently europeans confuse speaking language culture would like saying mexico culturally identical spain nominally speak language wyoming rancher almost nothing common culturally socially average person living san francisco despite speaking language nominally living country want visit wildly different culture holidays ill go oakland new orleans similar far different live countries ive traveled lot places farther live spain germany second state live size germany travel neighboring state regularly equivalent fact probably travel much farther holidays german construction workers look eu single country analogy become comparable kind ridiculous superiority europeans get relatively tiny countries truth find europe culturally homogeneous us lot cultural similarities across eu relatively minor local deviations vary distance ways similar us real difference europeans dozens different languages hardly something would call advantage although couple parts us cant understand word saying either james rogers jamesrbestcom 09 oct 2002 125804 0700 disappearing alliance