Given what follows, it’s difficult to comprehend Matthew Stevenson’s initial statement that “the more general trend is European indifference to the policies of the United States.” He proceeds to explain:

Economically, Europeans blame America’s financial narcissism for the recent market panic and recession.

And:

On security, Europeans feel hung over from the binge of recent American imperialism.

I more or less stopped drinking a few months ago, but I don’t recall ever being “indifferent” about a hangover, and if I’d ever had one because somebody else got drunk, I’d have been something quite different than ambivalent. And that brings us back to do.
Europe remains Europe: inclined to drift languorously off to a hibernal vacation from history and agitated whenever the nations keeping watch cry out an alarm.