The Economist($) pans Europe's reaction to President Bush (although they also eventually get in a dig at the latter):
As George Bush toured Europe emphasising, in speech after speech, that the central principle of his foreign policy is the effort to spread liberty and democracy, Europeans queued up to mutter about how many American allies are unfree and undemocratic, and how contradictory it is to use guns and tanks as prime tools in that cause. Far better, they said, to be a ?moral power? like the European Union, spreading freedom through softer and subtler means of influence and engagement?means like, as Mr Bush heard to his horror, lifting the EU's embargo on arms sales to China, in return for precisely nothing from that communist regime on human rights, or democracy, or on its sabre- rattling over Taiwan. Oh, except more trade, including more arms sales.
Exactly.
