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September 11 and Europes Contempt Toward the U.S   Lest we forget the intrepid resolve of our many European allies, the French surged forward into the fray stopping point week. Well, perhaps surging isnt quite the word, and the fray has become a hand-to-mouth(prenominal) affair as of late. Their token gesture to join the U.S. and Great Britain in orchestrating a Northern Alliance victory amounts to little more than tactical cowardice, a dashing display of minced words and foot-dragging that only the French reckon capable of. However symbolic the gesture, the French and their European counterparts tend to turn back such offerings of goodwill sealed with the usual stamp of anti-Americanism.   The irritating Euro-superiority multiform recently surfaced over the issue of extraditing captured terrorists to the United States. In September, Spanish political science infiltrated the Soldiers of Allah, a radical Islamic group based in capital of Spain with links to al underst ructure. The operation led to 14 arrests of key al Qaeda operatives and shed new light on the financing of put in Ladens operations preceding the September 11 attacks. Hundreds of millions of pesetas (i.e. millions of dollars) flowed through this unit of al Qaedas financial network. Despite this damning evidence, Spain clam up sniffs at the thought of extraditing the detainees to the U.S.   And what is the theme of Spains moral indigestion?  The backward American justice system, of course. After all, the U.S. still employs such barbaric anachronisms as the death penalty (and even worse, a solid majority of Americans seem to support it). As evidenced by the continual stalling of Spanish diplomats, the moral burden of any extradition to a country as primitive as the United States is simply as well much for the collective Spanish conscience to bear. The fate of al Qaeda operatives must not be a illegalisedoned to the crude methods of American jurisprudence. kinda of reject ing such anti-Americanism, the 15 members of the European Union echoed Spains sentiments in their sanctimonious reports to the press.   The chaparral administrations establishment of military tribunals further inflamed the E.U.s righteous choler. Several countries genial reminded the U.S. that sending the al Qaeda henchmen across the pond would violate the EUs extradition ban against countries that use the death penalty. This was consistent with what seems to be the E.U.s role of the meddling whiner, grasping some disputable moral high ground to voice complaints rather of solutions. Perhaps the most annoying aspect of most European indignation is its paternalistic tone, as if the Americans were still reckless colonies in need of a scolding.