Special Report  Ninety-Two Years and Counting  Even our
president doesn't know just how long the U.S. has been guilty of
a "failure to appreciate Europe's leading role."  By 4.8.09
Send to Kindle  Last Friday, a Fox New panel kicked around the
matter of President Obama's remarks at the G-20 meeting where he
had characterized the U.S. attitude toward Europe as "arrogant,"
dismissive," and "derisive." The United States, its President
had said, was guilty of a "failure to appreciate Europe's
leading role," in world affairs.  This was too much for Charles
Krauthammer. In what he described as "a turn of phrase I'm sure
I will regret," Krauthammer said impatiently that Europe had
been "sucking on the [American] teat for 60 years."  The phrase,
actually, was entirely apt. But Krauthammer was short by almost
32 years.  On Good Friday, April 6, 1917, Congress gave
President Woodrow Wilson the declaration of war on Germany he
had requested four days earlier. It was, in the words of
military historian J.F.C. Fuller, "t