To: Messrs. Thomas M. & Len Grasso.
As I told you, the Judeofascist clique is stealthily at work on patching up the rift between Europe and America... Of course, their mouthpieces don't find it appropriate to lash out at Colin Powell who still enjoys iconic status. However, their commentaries betray their repressed discomfort with the assertive Secr of State:
American power isn't the problem, just how it's used
David Ignatius International Herald Tribune
Friday, February 22, 2002
What bothers Europe
PARIS Before his next round of trading insults with European critics, Secretary of State Colin Powell might want to sit down for lunch with the man who set off the current trans-Atlantic tiff when he called U.S. anti-terrorism policy "simplistic," Foreign Minister Hubert Védrine of France.
Powell would hear some comments about Europe and the United States that might surprise him. And he would encounter a France that, for all the recent commotion, is wary about offending the United States and wants to maintain at least the appearance of amicable relations.
I can offer a glimpse of what's on Védrine's mind because the French foreign minister invited me to stop by for a chat this week. Although much of the conversation was off the record, Védrine agreed to let me summarize his comments and include a few direct quotations.
Védrine made light of the put-down Powell fired his way last week when he said that the French foreign minister must have been "getting the vapors" when he made the "simplistic" remark. Védrine knows that he was being insulted, compared to a nervous menopausal woman. But he laughed it off as "a virile exchange between friends."
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Although Mr Ignatius' point is craftily wrapped in roundabout phrases, his bottom line suggests that American policymakers are the ones who should mend their manners... If only Secretary of State Powell would take the time to lunch with his distinguished, even-tempered French counterpart!
Perhaps, Mr Ignatius hints that Secr of State Powell might apologize for his "insulting dig" at Mr H. Védrine? Too bad Mr Ignatius is so scatty --for he'd have reminded his audience of the stream of abuse against the US President by his fellow European glitterati:
INSIDE TRACK ON WORLD NEWS
by international syndicated columnist & broadcaster Eric Margolis
Jun 17, 2001
YANKEE GO HOME - UNTIL THE NEXT WAR
PARIS - I went to Luxembourg's US Military Cemetery to pay my respects as an old soldier and US Army veteran to the grave of George S. Patton, America's greatest fighting general of Word War II. Behind him, lay rows upon rows of graves of the soldiers of Patton's Third Army - Italian, Jewish and Irish boys from my hometown, New York City, and from Chicago, Colorado, Ohio and Montana - who died liberating Europe from Hitler.
A grim archipelago of American military cemeteries extends from nearby St. Avold, westward along the Meuse and Marne, all the way to Normandy. Here lie the young Americans who died in World Wars I and II fighting Europe's war.
As President George W. Bush visited Europe last week, he was met by a storm of personal abuse and anti-American invective from western Europeans who have clearly forgotten they were rescued in two world wars, and saved from Soviet invasion, by the very same America they now are bashing.
French newspapers called Bush a `warmonger,' and `Texas cowboy.' Britain's leftwing Guardian labeled the Bush Administration, `a presidency of dunces.' Germany's equally leftwing `Speigel' called the Bush entourage, `snarling, ugly Americans.' Much of Europe's media and many politicians described Bush as aggressive, trigger-happy, know-nothing, prisoner-executing, anti-abortion, Christian fundamentalist hick. Washington was accused by its best friends of high-handed unilateralism.
By contrast, Eastern Europeans, with fresh memories of Soviet occupation, greeted President Bush with warmth and appreciation. Europe's petulant outburst of anti-Americanism unfortunately obscured President Bush's most important statement: that there would be `no more Yaltas,' a vow that electrified Poles, Hungarians, Lithuanians, Estonians, and Latvians.
Western Europe has always had deep strains of anti-Americanism, but this week's orgy of Yankee-bashing has not been seen since the days of Ronald Reagan. Why? Two reasons.
First, as Edward Gibbon wrote in 1764 in his majestic `Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire,' (The
Greeks)`still preserving the prejudices, after they had lost the virtues of their ancestors, they affected to
despise the unpolished manners of their Roman conquerors , while they were compelled to respect their
superior wisdom and power.' He might as well have been describing feeble but snobbish Europe in 2001.
Second, the left today dominates Europe. Most European governments - Spain, Austria, and Italy
excepted - are run by socialists, many in coalition with communists. Much of Europe's media, schools, and
universities are in the hands of the left. French, Belgian and German neo-marxists vied to denounce Bush
and all things American, from capital punishment, genetically altered foods, McDonalds, and anti-missile
defenses to air pollution and movie violence. Europe's left wailed over the execution of mass murderer Timothy McVeigh, while totally ignoring China's execution of 560 prisoners over the past month.
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