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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)

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

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

Smaller and easy to nick from Waterstones .

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

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.........

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...

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").

Thou never wast remiss, I bear thee witness.