"In European capitals these days, the anti-Americanism that flared up with the Iraq war is joined by a new schadenfreude. Americans thought they could splash money on foreign policy adventures and 50-inch TVs; now a nation fueled by debt is facing its comeuppance. But surely at least some foreigners can see the tragic dimension here. The United States went into Iraq because, even if mistakenly, it wanted to rid the world of a menace. For this, the world hated it. The United States is throwing money at its economic difficulties because it sees a threat to its prosperity and also to the wider world. For this, the world scorns it. Investors are responding to America's economic activism by dumping dollars the way they once dumped dot-com stocks. The would-be saviors of the world economy can no longer afford lunch in Europe."
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