The Myth of 'Squandered Sympathy'

European elites were anti-American long before the liberation of Iraq.

John Rosenthal pens this extensive essay in which he looks at the rampant anti-Americanism which, contrary to the view of leftist moonbats, existed prior to the attacks of 9-11. In France and Germany in particular the intelligentsia has been vocal and strident in their hate of all things American and their envy and resentment of American power, both military and economic. The argument from Old Europe was the one which the left would later pick up and repeat endlessly; that America got what was coming to it. Recommended reading.