THE OCEAN GROWS EVEN WIDER?

More on the great American-European divide, this time from Time magazine's Jeff McAllister. Some key points:

...I have been writing about U.S. foreign policy for 30 years and living in Europe for the last seven... I fear there are bigger centrifugal trends at work than a single President and his unpopular war....

...In the Czech Republic, for example, 83% of those polled in July don't want to let the U.S. build a military base there. The Transatlantic Trends survey shows the sharpest drop in support for U.S. leadership in countries that have traditionally been most pro-American, such as the U.K. and Poland.

...Not worrying about what others think speaks to a splendid isolationism of the mind. Even if Europe doesn't have the heft it used to, the U.S. will find managing the rise of Asia's new powers much harder without help from the bulk of the most prosperous democracies.

[Via Atlantic Review]