usa vs. europe

[woodgnome]

given the perennial debate on this forum about the contrasting manner in which our two continents conduct their geo-political affairs, i would recommend 'power and paradise' by robert kagan, as a timely analysis of why people with much in common culturally, are increasingly at loggerheads over a wide range of issues.

(the above link is to amazon.com for the greater number of reviews posted by readers but it's readily available in paperback over here)

[Bronson Lee]

Can you point me in the direction of the Ladybird version ?

[Lizard]

Why?..............there,s still no pictures!

[Bronson Lee]

Smaller and easy to nick from Waterstones .

[Lizard]

How remiss of me...........

[Lizard]

Bimmer wrote-: "Interesting book...I'll pick it up! I am always wanting to know what makes you guys tick.


Well! there,s diplomacy, and real ale for a start.........

[thomasdecabries]

Are you sure you're on the top ?

On the top of what ?

Do you remember vietnam ?

All the intelligent people have forcast what it happens now in iraq but the us government has made the choice to prefer the oil bush friends and family interests : you are so stupid to compare us and europe so, before to talk, go to school...

[Cerberus]

So what makes us guys tick?...........dunno but it probably dates back to around the Viking incursions lol.
So is this weighty tome going to give us the answers from a "neutral" perspective? After reading the bio I'm quite convinced...........lol

Robert Kagan
Aka: The Thoughtful Superhawk
Authorized bio: Washington Post columnist, senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, author of Paradise and Power: America vs. Europe in the New World Order, co-director of the Project for the New American Century.
Unauthorized bio: The guy who explains why the Europeans are wimps.
His take on war: European and American views of geopolitics are irreconcilable. The American view?that only force can secure democracy and international order?is correct, so we should topple Saddam now.
Like a broken record: "Americans are from Mars; Europeans are from Venus."
Connections: Writes for Kristol's Weekly Standard and directs Kristol's think tank. Kagan and Kristol co-wrote the 1996 Foreign Affairs piece "Toward a Neo-Reaganite Foreign Policy," a neocon manifesto advocating that the United States pursue "benevolent global hegemony." Works under Jessica Mathews at Carnegie.
He is not: Frederick Kagan (his brother, a military historian with identical views), Robert Kaplan (Atlantic Monthly, geopolitical Jeremiah), Lawrence Kaplan (New Republic, identical views), or Fred Kaplan (Slate, "Bush is blowing it").

[Bronson Lee]

Thou never wast remiss, I bear thee witness.