Europe sucks - says a Frenchman

Wonderful Gallic flourish in a contribution by Pascal Bruckner to City Journal:

Europe seeks peace at any price, even what Saint Thomas Aquinas called a bad peace - one that consecrates injustice, arbitrary power and terror, a detestable peace heavy with vicious consequences. Europe postulates freedom for all but is content with just its own. It has a history, whereas America is still making history, animated by an eschatological* tension toward the future. If the latter sometimes makes major mistakes, the former makes none because it attempts nothing. For Europe, prudence no longer consists in the art, defended by the ancients, of finding one’s way within an uncertain story. We hate America because she makes a difference. We prefer Europe because she is not a threat. Our repulsion represents a kind of homage, and our sympathy a kind of contempt.

* Eschatology = concerned with the ultimate destiny of humanity