From: nanowave (nanowave@shaw.ca)
Date: Sun Feb 02 2003 - 11:30:27 MST
MMB wrote:
<heavy snipping>
>The more one sees of this, the more one is convinced that the historian
>Robert Kagan, in his very smart new book "Of Paradise and Power," is right:
>"Americans are from Mars and Europeans are from Venus." There is now a
>structural gap between America and Europe, which derives from the yawning
>power gap, and this produces all sorts of resentments, insecurities and
>diverging attitudes as to what constitutes the legitimate exercise
>of force.
>
>I can live with this difference. But Europe's cynicism and insecurity,
>masquerading as moral superiority, is insufferable.
<snip>
>As I said, there are serious arguments against the war in Iraq, but they
>have weight only if they are made out of conviction, not out of expedience
>or petulance ‹ and if they are made by people with real beliefs, not
>identity crises.
<snip>
I agree wholeheartedly. The French are in serious need of some rest,
reflection, and serious soul searching. A thoughtful walk along the lovely
beaches of the north western seaboard is long overdue.
Russell Evermore
Canadian
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