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To: truedog who wrote (167)	7/29/1999 5:30:00 AM
From: GUSTAVE JAEGER	Respond to of 542

TD, Read my previous exchanges with Neocon and D. Long on the WWIII and Kosovo threads about the cultural mismatch between Europe and the US. I think this superiority complex by Europeans was best caught in the following zinger by French statesman Georges Clemenceau [1841-1929](): ''The United States is the only country that went from barbarity to decadence without the detour through culture...''* (in French: Les Etats-Unis sont le seul pays qui soit passé de la barbarie à la décadence sans avoir connu la civilisation...) Get the picture? Hopefully, dear TD, I've got a ready-made terse cue for you.... Clemenceau died before WWII and, consequently, couldn't know about Nazism and the Holocaust. Hence my answer to him: ''Europe was the only civilized region that went from decadence [think of the 1930s as Les Années Folles] to barbarity [ie WWII] with a detour through culture!'' After all, the pre-war era was a period of vivid cultural effervescence in Europe (Richard Strauss, Picasso, André Gide, Céline, Alfred Koestler, Einstein, etc.). (*)http://www.vendee.com/french/histoire/1917.htm Regards, Gustave.