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...former President, Mario Soares. "The U.S. is doing things that have grave consequences for the world." Some Europeans are angry about other issues, from "American cultural hegemony"--the Golden Arches on the Champs Elysees--to the perceived barbarism of the American death penalty. The planned execution of Timothy McVeigh has brought renewed protests from the E.U., where membership requires abolishing capital punishment...
...remarkably candid summation, a senior White House official told the New York Times last week that "the common European perception (of President Bush) is of a shallow, arrogant, gun- loving, abortion-hating, Christian fundamentalist Texan buffoon." On top of that, Bush arrives the day after the execution of Timothy McVeigh, and capital punishment in the European mind makes the U.S. something of a moral leper. Still, Bush's aides believe the President's affable persona will disarm European skeptics...
...feel better, now that McVeigh is dead? Do the survivors feel better? Do they feel "closure?" Relief? Peace? A "completion of justice," as one of the survivors, Kathleen Treanor, said...
...Perhaps the answer to all of those questions is yes. Kathleen Treanor lost a daughter, a father-in-law and mother-in-law in the explosion, and has paid, in the hardest way, for the right to her view of McVeigh's death...
...There are colder, calmer, more intelligent calculations to be made about what is gained and what is lost in a business like the execution of Timothy McVeigh. I think killing him gives us, on the whole, a loss. Killing him gave him power and attention he should have been denied...