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Are Europeans Hiding in the Bush, or is Transatlantic Panacea to Come? | 16 comments (16 topical, editorial, 0 hidden)

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I am interested by your suggestion that the US would be the abusive husband. Your comment seems to reflect an assumption that the US has been the source of all tensions in US/European relations... I do not know if this was your intention, but one thing I have learned in my discussions between Americans and Europeans is that both sides have pretty severe grievances and feelings of let down from the other.

Not sure what you mean by "Carterised Obama"?

As for McCain and Europe...he has all but promised that "there will be more wars"

I agree... McCain is a little too trigger happy for my comfort. I mean, it is one thing to say that you will support a strike against Iran if it manages to develop nuclear weapons or is imminently close. But what kind of idiot sings a song going, "bomb bomb Iran"?

Kyle Atwell

by Kyle Atwell (kyle.atwell [at] atlanticreview.org) on Sun Feb 24th, 2008 at 12:08:18 PM EST
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Re: Are Europeans Hiding in the Bush, or is Transa (none / 0)

Well, I was mostly riffing on the analogy. It was an oblique reference to the run-up of the Iraq war and Rumsfeld's division of Europe into "new" (read: "acquiescent") and "old".

"The basis of optimism is sheer terror" - Oscar Wilde

by NordicStorm on Mon Feb 25th, 2008 at 05:30:01 AM EST
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Kyle Atwell:

I am interested by your suggestion that the US would be the abusive husband.

Don't get me started on the way the US treats its NATO allies.

We have met the enemy, and he is us — Pogo

by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Thu Feb 28th, 2008 at 05:09:15 PM EST
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My gripe with these nice husband-wife comparisons is that there aren't just two partners in NATO. If the allieance would be between the USA and the EU, that would be interesting. But as things stand, we are the USA's harem of pigmy women. I am not interested in the gripes of the pasha.

*Traitor*, n.
A benighted individual who perceives an illusory distinction between serving his nation and abetting the criminals who govern it.

by DoDo on Thu Feb 28th, 2008 at 05:42:36 PM EST
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