If you get a chance, and feel up to it, a diary contrasting the social/cultural aspects -- feed-ins? -- to/of US militarism versus the EU based on your experience would be interesting and help to increase international understanding.

Somehow the peoples of the EU have GOT to realize how completely the US is dominated by the military-industrial complex.  (Read: predatory capitalists and their hirelings, prostitutes, and toadies in and out of politics.)  I can't do it due to my lack of social and cultural knowledge.  

She believed in nothing; only her skepticism kept her from being an atheist. -- Jean-Paul Sartre