LibSam's David Carr, reporting on the "38th Annual Munich Conference on Security Policy," provides a helpful translation of Euro-speak:
Posted by Dr. Frank at February 4, 2002 02:31 PM | TrackBack"The Americans call on the Europeans to spend more money on defence, while the Europeans accuse the Americans of being too self-willed and not interested in a real partnership"
For the benefit of non-British readers, allow me to translate the above phrase into English: "The Americans are wicked for not sharing our crippling moral relativism and post-colonial guilt and selfish because they refuse to subsidise our defence costs while we pour all our resources into our bloated welfare sectors"