From the Instapundit:

I saw someone on one of the talk shows saying that although the United States is the world's only superpower, we should "act as if" other nations had similar clout. That's the dreamworld that Europe has been living in.

The scary thing is that Washington and the State Department are full of "experts" who take this nonsense seriously. I mean, isn't Europe where all of our culture came from? OTOH, it also gave us Marxism, Socialism, Communism, Franco, Stalin, Lenin, Ceaucescu and Milosevich, not to mention two world wars. Why should we listen to these people about anything? We have our own faults, of course, but we also have the virtue of having defeated the Soviet Union, and bankrolling NATO since it's inception and conquering a number of world powers and then rebuilding them, and making them our commercial competitors. This reminds me of Bob Dylan's "Neighborhood Bully" on his Infidels album, which, oddly enough, is about Israel.