September 13
2002
EU-US relations
» Posted on September 13, 2002 02:00 PM » Category: General
First class article by Martin Walker on US-EU relations. It includes this wonderful quote from a 'senior US diplomat': "The Europeans told us they could win the Balkans wars all on their own. Wrong. They told us that the Russians would never accept National Missile Defense. Wrong. They said the Russians would never swallow NATO enlargement. Wrong. They told us 20 years ago that dÈtente was the way to deal with what we foolishly called the Evil Empire. Wrong again. They complain about our Farm Bill when they are the world's biggest subsidizers of their agriculture. The Europeans are not just wrong; they are also hypocrites. They are wrong on Kyoto, wrong on Arafat, wrong on Iraq - so why should we take seriously a single word they say?".
Indeed.

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