It is no small irony that President Obama's reelection bid is being undermined by his friends in Old Europe.
Forty-six months ago, then-candidate Barack Obama flew to Berlin to call for a new era of friendship with Europe after it and the United States had "drifted apart." With an offer to end the American unilateralism of the Bush years, he urged the adoring crowd: "Now is the time to join together through constant cooperation."
