Pretty much what I expected from the poster Old Europe...
Al, I give you a lot of credit for breaking down each statement point by point, but quite frankly I expected a more objective analysis from a person of your intellect. It seems that when a European criticizes Europe you have no problem with it, but if an American or someone else does so, you immediately put up the defensive forcefield.
Perhaps, but equally the same could be said for the reaction towards Europeans who criticise America. I think the majority of people will automatically become defensive when somebody from another part of the world criticises the culture they directly experience on an everyday basis, and I don't think anybody likes to be lectured from abroad (especially if the person making the argument only seems to have a disproportional understanding of the situation). I see very little difference between European anti-Americanism and the sort of anti-Europeanism people like Mark Steyn exhibit. Jingoism is jingoism, no matter which flag you drape it in.
