Every few decades it falls upon an American to save Europe: Woodrow Wilson in 1917, FDR in 1941, Reagan in 1987 and now me. I come to the job having saved many things, including a lot of aluminum foil that I made into a pretty large ball in the 1980s. I've saved my career in ways so surprising, the journalistic community has referred to it as failing up. I also saved my marriage after I called my wife the C word. I'd like to see Angela Merkel pull that off.
Americans have gotten lame at bossing Europe around, like we had...
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