U.S. diplomat's view of Europe

Washington Times ^ | Thursday, November 14, 2002 | Martin Walker

[JohnHuang2]

"You want to know what I really think of the Europeans?" asked the senior State Department official. "I think they have been wrong on just about every major international issue for the past 20 years."

"They told us they could fix the Bosnian mess all on their own. Wrong."

[JohnHuang2]

Thursday, November 14, 2002

Quote of the Day by MrB

[11B3]

NATO is about as usefull as is the Warsaw Pact - or the UN for that matter. Today the world (especially the US and Russia) have leaders that can work together on issues that used to require these larger organizations.

[jdege]

Is it time for us to dissolve NATO?

[MadIvan]

We need a new alliance of America, Britain, Australia, Israel, India and Russia. That should be a sufficient check on the ambitions of the Islamists.

Regards, Ivan

[JohnHuang2]

Excellent idea, amigo. Morning, btw.

[fporretto]

What a stirring and heartening thing to read in the morning! Let's hope there are a few more people in the State Department who understand that they work for the United States, and that the United States really are "the good guys."

Freedom, Wealth, and Peace,
Francis W. Porretto
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[machman]

He is a cultivated and courteous man, but he was angry, in that dangerous way quiet men can be. And the unveiled contempt in his voice and the curl of his lip whenhe drawled out the word "Europeans" said as much for the depth of his feelings as his bitter rhetoric.

Europeans do not yet get this, the great sea change that has taken place in the American foreign policy establishment. It would be easy to date this from the terrorist attack on September 11, but it goes back further.

I think more and more Americans feel the same way.