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Article: The Marriage Counselor : British Prime Minister Tony Blair prides himself on (re)building bridges between Europe and the United States.(Brief Article)
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- Newsweek International
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- June 3, 2002
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America and Europe at odds? You'd be hard-pressed to find an odder couple than George Bush and Tony Blair. Lifestyles? It's Texas oil patch and Rangers baseball versus deep-think political chats in the Georgian salons of North London intellectuals. Politics?
Conservative Republican versus European social democrat. Foreign policy? The emptiest passport in the modern American presidency versus a multilingual, globe-trotting, communitarian reader of the Qur'an.
As different as these two may be, however, their story is in many ways a reality check on the loose talk of "unraveling" transatlantic relations. For when push comes to shove, as go Britain and the ...