On Really Existing Anti-Americanism - Hoover Institution

Hoover Classics : Berman hcberman ch3 Mp_96 rev0 page 96
96 Anti-Americanism in Europe
rificed in order to maintain peace. The terrain is not
much different in the context of the war on terror. A
European predisposition to accept the status quo and to
do nothing rather than to take risks, no matter how dire
the situation, contrasts with an American predisposition
to assert independence and insist on a responsibility to
act, individually and as a nation. It is, however, ultimately
not the American actions themselves but the
European inability to act that provokes anti-American
rage.