Europeans suck!

Today, Paul Reynolds, writing for the BBC News, discusses "issues" that will be raised during tomorrow's US-EU annual summit in Vienna.

Charmingly, Reynolds tells us, Europe "has found some common ground in criticism of the US." Europeans are consumed by Guantanamo, and sort of concerned about Iran.

Tellingly, Reynolds found a scholarly, soft-power player, John Palmer who says,

What has changed in Vienna is that the Europeans are clearer about the dramatic limitation of the reality of the US as a superpower. It has not escaped their notice that the US had to turn to the European strategy for Iran. The Europeans resent an overbearing hyperpower but are aware of the problems of an implosion of worldwide US power and are worried at the implications for both the future of real multilaterism and potential isolationism by the United States. (emphasis mine)