Think about it

[FrodeauxB at aol.com]

>From an essay on the relevance of Europe to the world today...at least from 
the view of some. We found the Johnson-de Gaulle story quite telling of the 
continent's condescending (we are striving to be civil in our use of 
adjectives) attitude historically prevalent in its opinion of the US:

Republican politicians well know that Mr. Blair is being accused of
neglecting the home front in order to concentrate on foreign policy. After
all, they are obsessed with the memory that such a combination cost the
President's father the 1992 elections. Blair's American friends say that his
critics would do well to consider that the goodwill he is building in
America, and the IOUs he is accumulating from Bush and the American people,
will stand Britain in good stead someday. And that he is listened to by the
President in a way that is the envy of those European leaders who specialize
in ridiculing Bush. 
America's special relationship with Britain is often contrasted with its
ambiguous relationship with France. The story making the rounds is a
reminder of Lyndon Johnson's response to then-President Charles de Gaulle's
demand that America remove its soldiers from French soil. At Johnson's
instruction, his Secretary of State, Dean Rusk, inquired whether the demand
applied to those buried in military cemeteries in France. Michael Barone,
one of Washington's leading pundits, says that Rusk once told this story to
a young Donald Rumsfeld. No one doubts that the Defense Secretary remembers
it. 
Only the dead do not know war.--Plato
Rail on, 

TTFN

frodeauxb