According to Andrew Hammel, American presidents need to be seen as trying to get more European troops: "American politicians always
need some kind of symbolic issue with European partners to maintain the
idea that there is some distance between the American and European
political orders." These policy disputes do not effect other
transatlantic cooperation.
Even an increase in Euro-bashing in the conservative blogosphere, resulting after a European refusal to share more of the burden, will not have significant political consequences, says Andrew Hammel of German Joys in this video interview with Atlantic-community.org:
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