Root causes for European Bush hatred

Lexington, the Economist's America column, argues that both Obama and McCain are determined to attack three of the root causes of America's poor image in European eyes "by banning torture, closing Guantanamo and embracing a cap-and-trade policy on climate change." If these are necessary to make Europeans love us then perhaps it's better they continue to hate us. Cap and trade is a lunatic idea. America doesn't torture, even if liberals and Europeans think we do. Europeans need to get over Guantanamo. Even if Guantanamo were worse than Europeans imagine, it wouldn't remotely compare to gas chambers, sterilization, guillotines and burning at the stake, all uniquely European.