The Crisis of Legitimacy: America and the World explores the rift between American and European points of view:
Opinion polls taken before, during, and after the war show two peoples living on separate strategic and ideological planets. Whereas more than 80 percent of Americans believe that war can sometimes achieve justice, less than half of Europeans agree. Americans and Europeans disagree about the role of international law and international institutions and about the nebulous but critical question of what confers legitimacy on international action. These diverging world views predate the Iraq war and the presidency of George W. Bush, although both may have deepened and hardened the transatlantic rift into an enduring feature of the international landscape.
Whereas more than 80 percent of Americans believe that war can sometimes achieve justice, less than half of Europeans agree. I wonder why that would be…