That is simply great news. In recent years the entire EU project — at least in Western Europe — has taken on an anti-American flavor. Gerhard Schroeder and Jacques Chirac — the lame duck and electorally doomed leaders of Germany and France, respectively — have kept their political engines running on the fumes of anti-Americanism in recent years. The EU project has been sold as a means of counterbalancing the American “hyperpower,” as the French call it. If a project with that kind of billing stumbles — and stumbles badly — and if anti-American nags like Schroeder and Chirac take it in the pants in the process, there can be no more appropriate response from the intelligent American than to dance a jig, do a shot, and wave the giant foam “We’re #1” finger in the air.
But American political leaders should do that behind closed doors. Public gloating wouldn’t be in our interests.
Grumble. He's right.
I'm still going to do a shot, dammit.
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