The newer a nation is to Democracy, the more positive they are toward America’s aggressive support of incipient (or even reluctant) democracy. (Witness Slovakia’s welcome today for GWB … people taking 8-hour train rides to be a speck in the crowd during his snowy, open-air speech.) True, it’s all very complicated, but still interesting that the Old Communist States are challenging “Old Europe’s” cynicism. Perhaps if you were born during WWII (I was/1942), you are not overly concerned about what Germany & France think about damn near anything.
