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Article: An ocean apart: the United States and Europe have vital shared interests, but is the Bush administration serious about finding common ground?
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- The American Prospect
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- March 1, 2005
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HISTORY WILL SURELY JUDGE US NOT BY OUR old disagreements but by our new achievements," Condoleezza Rice told a Paris audience on February 8, speaking on her first European trip as secretary of' state. If the Bush administration is truly interested in a trans-Atlantic rapprochement, it is not a moment too soon. U.S.-European relations are more acrimonious than they have been in decades. The broad European opposition to the Bush administration's policies on Iraq, global warming, human rights, arms control, and trade is reciprocated by Washington's disdain for everything from Europe's view of Iran to its proposed new constitution.
American conservatives are angry ...