Why Europe Ignores Bush

Tony Karon writes in Time:

Machiavelli's advice to political leaders was that it's more important to be feared than to be loved. That's no help for President Bush on his European tour; in spite of the warm words he's exchanging with European leaders, the reality is that the Bush administration is neither loved nor feared in growing sectors of the international community — increasingly, it is simply being ignored.

The rest of the article explains how the credibility lost with the lies about Iraq and the difficulty the Bushies are having resolving that mess has led the Europeans and others to ignore aWol's ramblings about Iran, Syria, China, wherever.