A Souring of European Relations

Read this column by Janet Daley in the London Telegraph. She argues that the election of Obama will make U.S. relations with Europe even worse than they were under Bush. Here is the nut graph:

What Mr Obama has succeeded in demonstrating to his own nation is that no amount of charm and flattery, no degree of self-abasement and apology for American "arrogance" is going to get any meaningful reciprocity from the Old Europeans (which is to say France and Germany, and the EU which they dominate) who could give lessons in sublime, transcendental arrogance to any American president however urbane and nuanced his message might be.

Who knows if she is right, but it is an interestingly argued column well worth your time to read.