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Monday, June 26. 2006Bush, Neocons, Patriotism: Opinion Pieces Round UpPosted by Editors in Transatlantic Relations on Monday, June 26. 2006
• "Bush doesn't get it": John Burke for Nieman Watchdog: "The handling of suicides at Guantanamo, the killing of Zarqawi and Bush's trip to Baghdad are linked by foreign news organizations and widely seen as gross PR efforts"
• Praising President Bush: Christoph von Marschall in Der Tagesspiegel about US environmental policies: "Die grüne Versuchung und der Öl-Junkie -- Präsident Bush ruft den größten maritimen Naturpark der Erde aus und will das erste emissionsfreie Kohlekraftwerk der Welt bauen." • Unhappy Neocon: Richard Perle explains in Wash Post "Why Did Bush Blink on Iran? (Ask Condi)" and calls on President Bush "to redeem our honor." • Democratic Neocons? Jacob Heilbrunn opines in Der Tagesspiegel that the Democrats wouldn't change US foreign policy much. • New German Patriotism? Berlin Corresspondent Richard Bernstein in International Herald Tribune about "flying anew, the German flag." • Wrong U.S. Patriotism? Washington Correspondent Thomas Klau blames American patriotism for failures in Iraq in Financial Times Deutschland, because he thinks that certain patriotism clouds the judgement: Im patriotischen Morast -- Die USA scheitern als Besatzer im Irak, weil zu Hause Politik und Medien als kritische Kontrolleure versagen. (...) Eine Gesellschaft, die in einem für Europäer unvorstellbaren Maß auf den Kult von Vaterland, Fahne, Soldatentum und Männlichkeit eingeschworen ist. (...) Doch im Ganzen betrachtet schwimmt Amerikas Öffentlichkeit auf einer seit September 2001 kaum abgeebbten Welle patriotischer Gefühligkeit, die Selbsterkenntnis und Urteilsfähigkeit allzu oft im Morast überemphatischer Vaterlandsliebe versinken lässt.• Anti-Americanism: Robert Kagan writes in the Wash Post that the current "wave of hostility will ebb, but this is about more than the Iraq War. • Transatlantic Counter-Terrorism Cooperation: Olivier Guitta writes in TCS that the US and European governments are cooperating well behind the scenes. Some skepticism is due concerning his conclusion that Germany "would react vigorously using military means" if it would be hit by a 9/11 kind of attack. Comments
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timothy
- #1 - 2006-06-26 16:35 - (Reply)
The "journalists" referenced in Burke's summary and the panelists at the panel discussion described by Kagan should get to gether and have a party. They could start festival, even, and call it Anti-American-a-Looza or Irrationalooza (I prefer the latter). What great fun that would be...and there would be so much insight to gain. Comments ()
alec
- #2 - 2006-06-27 04:46 - (Reply)
Nothing is worse than reading a Robert Kagan article and going 'I kind of agree'. Yes, the Iraq war brought out a lot of bad feelings, but a lot of bad feelings still existed during the fairly benign Clinton years -- they were just under the surface. I think the deep root of the Western resentment is economics. Third world nations have seemingly come a long way in terms of education but at a snails pace in terms of increases in incomes and the surroundings of daily life. Basically, it's a resentment that lingers from colonization that morphed in globilization to an envy of have and have nots, where America is the largest and most profitable have. Comments ()
Don
- #3 - 2006-06-27 13:19 - (Reply)
Whether the Democrats would change foreign policy much depends very much upon which Democrat is elected. I don't see a Hilary Clinton or a Joe Leiberman or Joe Biden changing a lot in substance - though the PR facade will change quite a bit. Comments ()
Anonymous
- #3.1 - 2006-06-27 14:30 - (Reply)
But Gore and Kerry only got a very slim chance to win, right? Comments ()
Don
- #3.1.1 - 2006-06-27 23:56 - (Reply)
Nonny, Comments ()
alec
- #3.1.1.1 - 2006-06-29 17:58 - (Reply)
I thought Nixon was elected in 68, and this was primarily because Johnson chose not to run again and the assasination of Robert Kennedy during the Democratic primaries. Comments ()
Kalki Gaur
- #4 - 2006-07-29 04:01 - (Reply)
Manifesto of Neo-Conservatism Comments ()
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