Wall Street Journal
June 10, 2008
George W. Bush’s five-country farewell tour of Europe this week has Pavlov’s pundits barking. In Britain’s Guardian newspaper, Timothy Garton Ash distills the conventional wisdom that “so much of the [post-9/11] dust-up [with Europe] had to do with Bush himself: his unilateralism, his obsession with Iraq, his cowboy style, his incompetence.” Not since Ronald Reagan has America had a less “European” president. more