Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: zonder who wrote (55979)	11/6/2002 1:56:55 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Respond to of 281500

If you read my post again, you will see that I am referring to the period after the cold war, when I say that the US was still viewed as the "benevolent giant", very powerful but benign and just. After the Cold War came a period of limbo, where for all Bush 41's talk of "new world order", nothing changed very drastically. So old structures and images persisted through intertia. Now we are in a period of change. >>I think that a reflexive anti-Americanism is driving France's policy making Certainly not. Well perhaps the profit motive is more important. Certainly, France has been willing to sell anything to Saddam in the past. Nuclear reactors? hey, no problem. But anti-American preening in the UNSC is definitely a factor.