US vs. EU by Leon Hadar

The strategic reality is that most of the Europeans, not unlike the Chinese and the Russians, don't want the US to succeed in Iraq. In fact, what the Europeans (and the Russians and Chinese) want 'is for the US to continue to have a tough time in Iraq, thereby discrediting Bush's doctrine of making preventive wars on behalf of disarmament and democracy,' explains Nicholas Berry, director of the Washington-based Foreign Policy Forum.