I see how little interest (judging by the number of comments) there is in any post that doesn't have to do America and critizing its actions. No one seems to care what the German government does, or what the EU and EU nations do, in any matter unconnected somehow with America.

All this news is posted here without drawing comment. Look at the non-committal lonely one above.

Now, it's easy to see why your American readers have no comments on matters like this, because it's really none of our business. So pardon us for not taking interest or caring.

But it's hard to see why Europeans consider everything about America, and everything it does, no matter how exclusively domestic, to be the whole world's business. Something to obsess about and get all excited about and have an opinion about and even find worthy of contempt - though it be but a matter of taste and preference.

This reminds me of a comment Norman Geras recently made in response to leftists gloating about their delusion of America's fall from prominance. With his usual understandment he simply noted that nonetheless America still seems to be all everyone in Europe is talking about.

A suggestion from a friend and ally: I think Europeans would prosper more if they minded more of their own business and less of ours.