OK, but if you read Freedland’s work over time you realize that he doesn’t really have America’s best interests at heart. He’s one of those pushing the meme that America was too powerful, and the EU had to be a counterweight, and then the US is in decline, so the EU should consider looking elsewhere for friends. Everything bad in the world, especially Muslim terrorism, is the fault of the West in general and the US in particular to him; the world is our victim and we need to make it right; if only the US put its military in the hands of the wise Europeans.

It’s a measure of this guy’s hubris that he thinks we’re just not going to get what he’s really after.