Summary
TONY BLAIR said after the American election that Europeans now must deal with the "new reality" of America. He accused some EU governments of remaining in denial about the American electorate's confirmation of George W. Bush's policies.
He obviously had in mind the "old Europeans" opposed to Bush on Iraq, but the accusation really fits those European Atlanticists who, until last week, still believed that the first George W. Bush administration was merely an accident on the great highway of Atlantic union (and fusion?).See the full content of this document
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'Pig' Not Likely to Whistle
A Netherlands university professor remarked to me in 2002 that the political class in his country had convinced itself that Donald Rumsfeld had kidnapped and locked up the Washington Atlanticists with whom they had dealt for years.
They told thems...See the full content of this document
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