"The deal was we give them Obama -- they don't hate us anymore." - Wyatt Cenac
On "the Daily Show", Jon Stewart pokes fun at European protesters and Wyatt Cenac has an epiphany about our relationship with Old Europe.
Watch the following video. The part about Old Europe still disagreeing with us starts at about the 1:24 mark:
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Former U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. John Bolton, reminds us that there have always been differences between the United States and Old Europe:
- If you go back to the time of the Revolution, there have been differences between Europeans and Americans very reminiscent of things we've seen in more recent years.
- During World War I French Prime Minister George Clemenceau said, America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilization.
- If you read the diaries and letters of the British and American top political and military leaders in World War II, they were at each other's throats.
- Lord Allenbrook, the British commander, didn't think Dwight Eisenhower was fit to be Supreme Commander or Americans were fit to fight.
- In 1996, during those halcyon days of the Clinton administration's transatlantic relations, former French President Francois Mitterrand said we are at war with America, a permanent war, a war without death. They are very hard, the Americans. They are voracious. They want undivided power over the world. And that was five years before George Bush was elected president.
The mere election of a liberal left-wing president isn't going to change the fundamental differences between Old Europe and the United States.
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