Viewed from America

Anthony Barnett (New York, OK): I have been having terrible problems getting on line which has allowed me to have a happy time not peering over my shoulder at the UK and  Gordon Brown's trip to the summit or the progress of FIXED TERM. How does Britain look from here? Wheredidyousay? More surprising for me is that the EU Treaty approval summit was the second story on page 13 of the New York Times, below the leaders of Venezuela and Colombia making eyes at each other. It's a relief that Turkey and Iran are big stories, but Europe hardly registers at all and friends say this is not unusual.  Far from fearing the rise of superstate that will bend the sovereignty of the EU members states to its will, the fearsome power of Brussels barely registers.  Do the Americans know something that the Eurosceptics don't? Or is there an uncomfortable avoidance here of the possibility of a different model of sovereignty, while China, India and Brazil, while they challenge America also reinforce its own conventional view of power?