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To: GST who wrote (157645)6/4/2003 10:12:40 AM
From: Oeconomicus  Read Replies (1) of 164684
 
Without seeing the survey, I won't tell you anything about it except that current world events don't seem to support the quoted conclusions.

There is no rift between the US and Britain, Spain, Poland, Italy or most of central and eastern Europe. Only France really and we've always had an awkward love-hate relationship with them. The German public is not anti-American, they were just anti-war - for their own very German reasons - and Schroder played into that to get elected. Now both leaders are facing heat for damaging their relationship with the US while their economies stumble.

The Muslim world is no more "inflamed" than it's been for years and probably less so. Have you seen the Arab world's response to Bush's peace efforts? The truth is that removing Saddam and establishing liberal government in Iraq does more for peace and reform in the Muslim world than anything US administrations, any European power, or the UN have done in decades.

Same goes for fighting terrorism - just read today's news.

Lastly, tell me how "global public support" for the UN and NATO have been weakened? I have heard that much of the world wants reforms at the UN and I think most Americans would agree, but I haven't heard anyone but a few isolationist nuts like craig wish for it to die. As for NATO, its an evolving institution, no longer resembling the NATO of Cold War days, and that makes perfect sense. The only danger to NATO is the French leadership's apparent desire to undermine any alliance with the US in favor of a French-led pan-European federation to "balance" US power. Perhaps Chiraq is possessed by the ghost of Tallyrand as well as de Gaulle.
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