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While some of America's staunchest supporters find themselves wondering if the U.S. still stands for the values that made them fall in love with it 60 years ago, many Europeans remain willing to look for hopeful signs of rapprochement. Christoph Bertram, director of the German Institute for International and Security Affairs, thinks "we now have an America that needs allies and is much more aware of it." The battle for their hearts and minds is far from over. --With reporting by John F. Dickerson/Washington, James Graff/Paris, Jeff Israely/Rome, Andrew Purvis/Vienna and Charles P. Wallace/Berlin
...Strip. During one such operation, Israeli commanders ordered a tank to fire warning shots over the heads of a crowd of Palestinian protesters--fearing they would cut off a clutch of Israeli infantrymen--and wound up killing seven people. The deaths provoked international outrage. Even the U.S., Israel's staunchest ally, withheld its veto and permitted the U.N. Security Council to condemn the incursion into the Gaza Strip...
...nation suffered the disgrace of Abu Ghraib last week, I traveled through Turkey and Jordan--our staunchest Islamic allies in the region--and talked with moderate politicians, businesspeople and military officials. Most found Bush's moral talk either duplicitous or fatuous. "Liberate Iraq? Rubbish," said a prominent Jordanian businessman. "You occupy Iraq for the strategic and economic benefits. You are building the largest embassy in the world in Baghdad. Halliburton and Bechtel are running everything, at enormous profits. And then I watch Bush on Al-Arabiya and all I see is his sense of moral superiority. He brings democracy...
...nation suffered the disgrace of Abu Ghraib last week, I traveled through Turkey and Jordan-our staunchest Islamic allies in the region-and talked with moderate politicians, businesspeople and military officials. Most found Bush's moral talk either duplicitous or fatuous. "Liberate Iraq? Rubbish," said a prominent Jordanian businessman. "You occupy Iraq for the strategic and economic benefits. You are building the largest embassy in the world in Baghdad. Halliburton and Bechtel are running everything, at enormous profits. And then I watch Bush on Al-Arabiya and all I see is his sense of moral superiority. He brings democracy...
...Samurai, he remarked that a traditional Japanese sword should have been included in the ticket price so that audience members would have the option of killing themselves rather than finish watching Tom Cruise’s insipid new historical drama. It’s an idea that even the staunchest euthanasia opponents could support...