Two leaders applauded the events of 9/11...
...they hailed from Palestine & Iraq.
At that moment Saddam sealed his and Iraq's fate. How quickly Europe forgets.
Fortunately, America and Americans aren't as worried about being "liked" as much as they used to be when they would go around Europe, smiling and trying to be friendly with the old-worlders as they did in the mid to latter part of the twentieth century.