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Perhaps you can shed some light then. Our European critics never criticize without seeking their own past to do it....
Why is it that no matter what America does, there is always the quest to compare America to the worst Europeans have to offer? During the 80s Europeans were fond of expressing how America was going to bring about the end of the world (and mass protests and negative polls ensued). During the 90s Europeans expressed their disgust over Bosnia and Kosovo despite the human carnage that was going igbnored by Europeans before we even got there and forced a hand. And over the last decade we have been compared to Nazis and even as far as labeled as Germany's equivelent.
Always, Europeans seek the worst scenario and attach America to it. My perspective on European "denial" is more about soothing internal turmoils than it is about fantacizing a different past.
We are so aware of our past that we do not want America to fall in the same traps and commit the same mistakes.
America seemingly isnt that aware of European past mistakes, and are not so wary of commiting the same mistakes we have done in the past.