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To: epicure who wrote (107796)	7/24/2003 4:20:52 PM
From: Neocon	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 281500

I read French newspapers nearly every day, sometimes translating op- ed pieces that I think will be enlightening. I also visit French television web sites, although I mainly read material on them. I watch other foreign news, with subtitles, from time to time on cable, as well as the BBC. I used to correspond with a German in Frankfurt, to discuss their politics, and I have know a number of foreign exchange students over the years. I watch a lot of foreign films, and have read a lot of foreign literature. I think I do better than most in having some idea of what it is like "outside the shell". The mainstream of German society knows enough about the United States to know better. The surprise is that that there is such a strong current of anti- American views to permit such a result. Your point about what they might hear in their country is misplaced, since the point is not that they are crazy, but precisely that it is alarming that such a current exists to make it plausible to even that percentage of the German populace......