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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (24063)	4/9/2002 10:50:45 AM
From: Dennis O'Bell	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

I'm not so sure there's really anything new going on related to that message by Nelson Ascher. All during the time I was living in France, you should have seen the stuff in the French press and on television concerning the Lewinsky affair. There was a thinly disguised satisfaction at seeing the American system of democracy under stress, and the fond hope that the US would as a result fall into anarchy in some major constitutional crisis. The French in particular would write off Israel in a blink of an eye if it could restore some of their own global importance. This is simply incontestable. Germany, no, and I'm unable to say with respect to other european countries. But this is nothing new. It is understandably very hard for countries to adjust to the sun no longer "never setting" on their once great colonial empires. Anyway, that piece is an interesting find - it's always useful to hear what foreigners living in a country have to say because it's often easier to see the forest for the trees in that situation.