This week's column

Europe's take on America's next president

The Wall Street Journal's European edition opines that the transatlantic bond remains "robust" despite President George W. Bush's supposed unilateralism. Harsh anti-Americanism, like that of France's Jacques Chirac and Germany's Gerhard Schroeder, is out and pragmatic pro-Americanism is in -- see replacements Nicholas Sarkozy and Angela Merkel.

With friendly presidents in every major capital save Madrid, Europe has moved past Iraq. Hence a "third" Bush term with John McCain would not signal disruption but a continued warming that characterized the second Bush term.

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Comments

[stuart abrams]

How will Europe resist its own Lou Dobbses? They will come in many guises, including in the form of liberal "secularists" seeking to defend the values of the "Enlightenment" against foreign hordes. I see that as one of the world's most important issues over the next decade or so.