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For several years the left have beaten the drum announcing that our reputations with foreign governments and countries is horrible strained because of the presidents policies.  This view was accenuated by anti-American protests here and abroad.  Like most left positions this ‘ugly’ American assertion is proving to be bilgewater.  From Britain, France Argue Which Is Closest U.S. Ally

Not to be outdone by President Sarkozy’s amorous overture to President Bush in Washington, Prime Minister Brown of Britain has used the first major foreign policy speech of his premiership to insist that Britain is America’s closest ally.

Mr. Sarkozy claimed during his visit to Washington last week that France, not Britain, is now America’s best friend and partner.

Mr. Brown, who has been portrayed on both sides of the Atlantic as having distanced himself from America to avoid the charge against his predecessor, Tony Blair, that he was Mr. Bush’s “poodle,” fought back last night, claiming in a speech at a banquet thrown by the lord mayor of the city of London that the French president’s bid to usurp Britain’s traditional place alongside America would not succeed.

”It is no secret that I am a lifelong admirer of America,” Mr. Brown said. And, in a thinly veiled reference to France’s traditional dislike of America and its culture, he added, “I have no truck with anti-Americanism in Britain or elsewhere in Europe, and I believe that our ties with America — founded on values we share — constitute our most important bilateral relationship.”

He welcomed France’s late conversion to the American cause and a similar newfound affection for America expressed by Chancellor Merkel of Germany in her visit to Mr. Bush’s ranch in Crawford, Texas, over the weekend.

Maybe these important countries are moving over to our side because we seem to be winning in Iraq and Afghanistan.  Personally I don’t care.  What’s important is that their leaders are avowing an importance to their continuing friendly relationship to the USA.

There is a lot more to the article.  Read it all.