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To: zonder who wrote (55890)	11/6/2002 4:56:58 AM
From: bela_ghoulashi	Respond to of 281500

Oh, we'll manage, don't you worry. :)

To: zonder who wrote (55890)	11/6/2002 1:00:49 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

I beg to differ. It has been a while now that the US is the only world superpower after the spectacular collapse of the Soviet Empire. However, up until this point, the US was perceived as the benevolent giant - very powerful but benign and just. From Europe, yes, nestled safely under the American nuclear umbrella, with American foreign policy options generally controlled by the Cold War, whose battles were all fought somewhere else. The mere fact that the Cold War is now over, and the US has freedom to rethink its policies in Europe and elsewhere, means that the "benevolent giant" image would be history by now no matter what policy the US pursued. I would even argue that the policies that the US is pursuing in the Persian Gulf -- regime change in Iraq -- is more in Europe's interest than the policies that France is pursuing -- back down to deterrence against Iraq. (This is because I don't think deterrence will work against Saddam.) I think that a reflexive anti-Americanism is driving France's policy making, not to mention a very large profit motive.