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Who's ugly now? : Mark Steyn argues that Americans are more compassionate and law-abiding than violent and cynical Europeans (Mark Steyn, 5/04/02, The Spectator uk)

For the Europhiles in the US media, the events of recent weeks are bewildering. It's barely two months since they were reporting approvingly every snotty crack by Chris Patten and Hubert Vedrine and regretting that Washington was so out of step with Europe. But then the synagogue attacks became too frequent to ignore, and M. Le Pen whupped Jospin's sorry [butt], and frankly, if you can pick only one place to be out of step with, Europe's an excellent choice.

Especially since Europe's step is a funeral march... Posted by Orrin Judd at May 8, 2002 11:16 AM