Let me get this straight: I’m the president of the United States, and while visiting France, which has given us Charles de Gaulle and Jacques Chirac, I tell the world that America is arrogant (“O to Euros: Be Mes Amis Again,” April 4).
Americans may be proud, although our most recent presidents have done a heck of a job in undermining that pride, but isn’t the term “arrogant” a bit much?
Ignatius Giorgio
Brooklyn
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America was effectively neutered by President Obama in Europe.
What he essentially did was hand over world leadership from America to Europe.
May God help us.
Al DiLascia
Chicopee, Mass.
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Don’t forget that Obama is quite knowledgeable about world affairs, putting him way ahead of the previous president, who had to be spoon-fed in bits and pieces what was going on around the world.
It is Obama’s ability to listen to and digest suggestions from other countries that makes us proud that we have an intelligent, truly compassionate leader who is able to communicate and who will do his utmost to bring a new sense of trust in a world badly in need of understanding, security and, ultimately, peace.
Herb Stark
Massapequa
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It is very ironic that Obama told the Europeans that America is arrogant, dismissive and derisive, pandering to the very anti-Americanism that he then accused them of.
Many people have called Obama arrogant.
We do not need our president making the Europeans’ case for their own “leading role in the world.” Nor will superpowers like China be impressed.
Andrew J. Delaney
Queens
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The nerve of Obama to apologize for America’s “arrogance.”
We saved Europe in World War II and spilled a lot of our blood.
We’ve also sent billions of money to Third World countries.
Who can call that arrogant?
Anita Baxter
Manhattan
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The “truth and reconciliation” administration of Obama has crossed over the line into global embarrassment with his shameful apology.
This man was elected to and is sworn to uphold the Constitution, not run an Oprah-like clinic on the bleeding heart of the past.
I hope that Americans are incensed by his apology.
Every man and woman serving in our military and every buried soldier in Arlington National Cemetery deserves an apology from Obama.
Obama has no business kowtowing to the population of a continent that might surely not exist if not for the intervention of America and the bravery of its military.
For more than half a century, European governments have begged America for help, and we have helped them without fail.
Europeans fled their own countries in droves to make a better life in America, not the other way around.
Tom Cahill
Manhattan
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What exactly does Obama expect to learn from the Europeans?
How to throw up one’s hands in surrender, like the French?
What will he learn from the never-ending list of countries that have held out their hands to eagerly accept anything and everything while our “arrogant” country voluntarily gave them aid in their times of need?
One can only imagine what thoughts must be crossing the minds of the families of soldiers who gave their lives to defend not only the United States but virtually all of Europe as well.
America can only hold its breath waiting for the next bombshell to drop from the lips of a president who obviously holds his own country in so little regard.
Dan Clemens
Marlboro, NJ
