The New Old Europe ; Continent's Troubles Remain the Classics
The Washington Times › December 30, 2011
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Nearly 10 years ago, Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld provoked outrage by referring to "old Europe." How dare he, snapped the French and Germans, call us "old" when the utopian European Union was all the rage, the new euro was soaring in value, and the United States was increasingly isolated under the George W. Bush administration!
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The New Old Europe ; Continent's Troubles Remain the Classics
The island of Britain usually is, and is not, a part of Europe - carefully pulling out when things heat up, terrified that it will be pulled back in when things boil over. British Prime Minister David Cameron knows ...
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