This is way offtopic, but maybe I try to explain why some of us old fashioned Europeans are reluctant towards the things happening in your country right now:
- We've got the feeling, that since a few years your government doesn't care at all, what the rest of the world is thinking. You lead the way, we have to follow without the slightes chance to even get asked. That's not exactly how you would like to have a partnership.
- Some people here think, that the U.S. are not very democratic anymore in a way as we understand it. The involvment of people from the oil & weapon industry in your government seems really strange to us and makes us wonder whether they decide, what's best for you, or what's best for them and the companies that use to feed them.
- what shocks us is your media (we recieve CNN here in Germany as well). The way a war is presented there as some sort of action game, with computer animations all nice and clean. Are you really sure, that your media is still the free press it used to be or is it more or less a press channel from the government? Where are some critical questions and starting a war is definitely the time to aks a lot of questions. How is it possible to proper judge a certain information for an individual if your not sure anymore whether you can trust the basis you build this opinion on?
I desperatly hope that these assumptions are wrong. That would be a pretty scary combination, more scary for you American people than for us outsiders.
So hopefully all this is a view from the outside, we get from our biased information sources. You are in a better situation to judge.