Do you know Europeans who are not quite anti-American but definitely prefer America when governed by Democrats? I touch on this issue in Impromptus today. Of course, there are also people who will barely grant Israel legitimacy unless it is governed by Labor. We could go on . . .

Anyway, I received an amusing note from a Frenchman. He said that, several years ago, he developed “a pretty funny social trick (if I say so myself).” He would defend the war in Iraq, and then someone would say, “Oh, well, what else can one expect from an unthinking pro-American like you?” And he would answer, “I am not pro-American, I’m pro-Republican.”

You can imagine the reaction to that one . . .