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Polly Toynbee, a kind of British Molly Ivins without the humor. I just caught up with her recent screed against America in the Guardian of London, but it’s a classic all right – a primal scream from the id of the European left. Entitled, “America The Horrible,” the piece contains this juicy morsel: “The rest of the world draws instinctively together in its repudiation of the Bush Jnr White House. Through this strange global vandalism, the leader of the free world has become the rogue. Ungracious in victory, absolute power corrupting absolutely, the only super-power is morphing into an evil empire of its own.” America as the evil empire. How soon they forget …