STEVEN DEN BESTE looks at German-American relations and concludes that it’s going to be harder for Gerhard Schroder to kiss and make up than Schroder probably thinks. (Via Cato the Youngest).

UPDATE: I don’t think it was a coincidence that Donald Rumsfeld chose Poland as the place to criticize Schroder’s actions. You can expect to see the United States reaching out to Central European countries much more in the next month or two — and, for that matter, probably in the next several years — as a means of counteracting Franco-German anti-Americanism.