It's amazing how some europeans openly critizise the US without fear of retribution without realizing that the US is fully capable of blowing them into the stone age... yet doesn't.
The KGB wasn't so forgiving...
There's an old saying "talk is cheap", especially when your a disarmed public like most of europe. You have freedom of speech, but no means of defending it. We have the same forces at work here but they haven't succeded, yet.
Europe has already laid the foundation for the next Hitler with the Euro, Germany will soon tire of the rest of Europe's lousy economies riding on it's back. (kinda like ours)
Coxswain, there are many Americans that look to Europe's example... Many want to follow it, thankfully (for you and us), many more that do not.