Jan 24, 2006 16:24
"Both Europe and America contain many millions of people who see clearly that, despite all that America has done for the cause of human freedom, its assertion of a right to permanent hegemony is a terrible mistake. Americans who realize this need all the help they can get to persuade their fellow-citizeens that Bush has been taking their country down the wrong path. The solidifications of the European Union into a powerful independent force in world affairs would be viewed by that segment of American opinion not as an expression of resentful anti-Americanism, but as an entirely appropriate and altogether welcome reaction to the danger that the direction of American foreign policy poses for the world." -Richard Rorty
my "Western Europe in World Affairs" class is interesting, despite the large amounts of reading.