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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