I'm a big fan of scathing editorials -- especially when they echo my sentiments.   ;-)

The Spectator, published out of the UK, had a rare Pro-American OpEd by Mark Steyn discussing the various motivations for greater European military capability.  He starts with a survey of sentiment from around the "Euro-Sphere":

Nelson Mandela says it’s the US and not Saddam Hussein who’s ‘the threat to world peace’. Canada’s transport minister, in his contribution to 11 September observances, regretted that the Soviet Union was no longer around to act as a check on American ‘bullying’. Sweden’s Goran Persson wants to build up the EU because it’s ‘one of the few institutions we can develop as a balance to US world domination’. Sweden

Another sentiment that Steyn takes on:

Worse, in confronting the Bush terror, they've developed the curious habit of mistaking the Great Satan’s strengths for weaknesses. A couple of weeks back, I wrote about ‘the innovations of the Afghan campaign, when men in traditional Uzbek garb sat on horses and used laser technology to guide USAF bombers to their targets’. There followed the usual flurry of huffy emails insisting this proved absolutely nothing as the cowardly Yanks hadn't had the ‘guts’ to send in ground troops.

...We can only guess at the new toys the Great Satan will have in five years’ time, but, whatever they are, I'll bet my in-tray is still getting sneering missives: ‘So now the bloody Yank poofters are using flying nuclear cheeseburgers launched from the Diego Garcia Burger King. Not exactly the Bengal Lancers, is it?’

When asked to "get back into the game" by funding a US Marines/Ranger-style Reaction Force, the classic European perogative to "save face" rather than commit to action is revealed:

...the Belgian foreign minister, insisting late last year that the European Rapid Reaction Force ‘must declare itself operational without such a declaration being based on any true capability’. As the Washington Post remarked, ‘Apparently in Europe this works.’

And, he concludes with a sentiment I also put forth in an earlier post:

Before 11 September, most Americans tolerated the anti-Yank diatribes from Europe as a quaint example of the local culture. Filtered through the smoke of the World Trade Center, it’s no longer quite so cute. The real phenomenon of the last year is not Europe’s anti-Americanism, which has always existed, but a deep, pervasive and wholly new American weariness with Europe.

Bravo!   And I'd love to see more of this kind of thinking emanate from Europe every now and then.  God knows that in the US, we've got enough dudes who mindlessly repeat anti-Yank sentiment.