European Hatred

European: I thought Viet-nam war was immoral.
American: no, killing Communists was part of the cold war that saved all of Europe yet again.

European: Were you there? :)
American: No but so what?

European: If "Viet-raq" is so moral, why are your troops exempt from international criminal court? Surely they have nothing to hide, right?

American: It is hard to imagine that they have anything to hide when we have a free press; so right you are, there is nothing to hide.
We don't belong to the international court out of a belief that our courts have a higher moral standard. We had to rescue Europe three times from Nazis, Communists and other bloodthirsty dictators. It is hard to imagine that such a homicidally confused place would now pretend to a higher standard of morality than ours.
Moreover Europe of late has stood absolutely still and silent in the face of genocide in Yugoslavia, Sierre Leone, Angola, Rwanda, Somalia, and, as we speak, Sudan, So it doesn't seem things have changed too much, except of course for the development of a huge European jealousy and resentment about the civilizing role the U.S. contiuues to play on the world stage while Europe looks with so much moral impotence.