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dpeck alerts me to a thought-provoking NY
Times article about the
evolving relationship between the EU and the US.

And there is dismay that Secretary of State Colin L. Powell, a European
favorite, is losing key battles to the conservatives who seem to have won
Mr. Bush’s ear and who regard European criticism as the whining of
weaklings. The moral leadership that President Bush was granted and
exercised after Sept. 11 has been “frittered away,” a senior European
official said.