NPR's left-wing bias: Another example

Here's another example of NPR's institutional, left-wing bias.

In a June 1 "analysis" of reaction to France's EU rejection vote, an NPR reporter said:

The failure to ratify a European constitution could also affect trans-Atlantic relations. Many European analysts suspect there's a sense of relief in some American circles -- those that fear a stronger Europe could evolve into a counterweight to U.S. power, and those who prefer a less united continent, where Washington can pick and chose its allies, as it did in the lead-up to the war in Iraq. (Bold added)

America didn't pick and choose European allies in the lead-up to the Iraq war.

America worked hard to build an alliance that would include all European countries. Most joined.

Even those European countries that didn't join the alliance -- principally France and Germany -- acknowledge America wanted them to be part of it.

So how can NPR go ahead and tell us of an America that "can pick and chose its allies, as it did in the lead-up to the war in Iraq?"

NPR's claim is leftist and false.

I'll going to e-mail NPR's Ombudsman, Jeffrey A. Dvorkin. I'll keep you posted.

Meanwhile, NPR's claim will make anti-American newspapers and journals in Europe happy. But will even they believe it?