Re: "Merkel's mission"
- From: thomsen <a.thomsen@xxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2006 23:34:39 +0100
yared22311@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
....Merkel's mission By Raffaello Pantucci Published January 13, 2006
A renewed American effort is needed to woo European publics at the
grass roots. Grand trans-Atlantic initiatives won't find counterparts
in the European halls of power, where leaders are preoccupied with
turning the EU experiment around and mending their economies. Instead,
Washington needs to reach out to the citizens of Europe, and persuade
them that the U.S. fight is just and the means legitimate.
How can you "persuade" people that black is white? They had better use
such "means" as are legitimate _under international law_. As long as they don't, they'll simply have to get used to the fact that the rest
of the world won't accept it. And no spin-doctoring will help.
Otherwise, the trans-Atlantic chill will continue to harden at a public level, something that will eventually filter into European decisions in elections. While leaders may be unable mend trans-Atlantic relations, hostile leaders can certainly damage them.
Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld already did a lot of damage.
Raffaello Pantucci is research associate in the Europe Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.
regards,
A. .
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