Armchairpunter:

I am convinced that our attitudes are influenced greatly by the fact that we are a “race” of people who got disgusted with the way things were elsewhere and left. The Europeans do not seem to understand that, apparently assuming that we were trying to clone them and missed rather badly.

On today, the 7th anniversary of 9/11/01, we need to realize that the Left, especially that of Europe, wants the same thing that Osama Bin Laden wants: for us to be less dynamic, less powerful, less an agent of change, less an example, less of a competitor, less proud, less successful, – in short, less American. It is not a difference in basic desires, but rather one of degree.