Anne Applebaum, You Gotta Be Putting Me On

Shorter Anne Applebaum: Two British newspaper columns prove that a rising wave of anti-Americanism was inevitable whether the Bush administration fought the War on Terra (TM) by installing an Islamist quasi-state in Iraq or by doing something rational and defensible. And I’m stunned that the Europeans haven’t reacted with such brilliant strategies as creating massive, highly effective new federal bureaucracies. As for my systematic evidence that European attitudes towards the United States under Clinton weren’t much more positive than under Bush…look, it’s Halley’s Comet!