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Politics : Politics for Pros- moderated
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To: Lazarus_Long who wrote (26084)1/24/2004 5:35:49 PM
From: Nadine Carroll  Read Replies (2) of 793868
 
But the United States has played that role not by adopting Europe's postmodern worldview, but by seeing the world through its own eyes. Today most Europeans believe that the United States exaggerates the dangers in the world. After Sept. 11, most Americans fear that they haven't taken those dangers seriously enough.

Herein lies the tragedy. To address today's global threats, Americans will need the legitimacy that Europe can provide. But Europeans may well fail to provide it. In their effort to constrain the superpower, they will lose sight of the mounting dangers in the world. In their nervousness about unipolarity, they may forget the dangers of a multipolarity in which nonliberal and nondemocratic powers come to outweigh Europe in the global competition


Meantime most Americans are asking, "What legitimacy would that be, exactly? Who defined Europe as legitimate? If we get the support of India, isn't that better than getting the support of France and Germany? India's a lot bigger."
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