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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.
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