From: "Emmanuel Gustin"

"Chris Mark" wrote in message
The European Right's anti-Americanism stems fundamentally from our
continent's loss during the twentieth century of its six-hundred-year
leadership role.

Please get the attribution correct. The comments are not mine, but
Jean-Francois Revel's.

You might have been interested in last September's conference at Johns Hopkins'
Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, "Competing Visions of
Europe and America."
The conference took up the questions "Does culture matter in transatlantic
politics?", What does it mean to be American?", "What does it mean to be
European?", and "What do our assumptions about who we are mean for
transatlantic relations?"
Among the speakers were the redoubtable Bernard-Henri Levy, France (and
probably Europe's) leading thinker, and Pierre Hassner, professor at the
Institute of Political Studies and Center for International Studies and
Research at the National Foundation for Political Sciences in Paris.
Levy described himself as an anti-anti-American, a position to which Hassner
ascribed, as well. Levy described America as Europe's paladin. In contrast to
your assertion that "the real reasons for the increasing tension between Europe
and America are the different cultural values...." they and others, including
the Italian poet and novelist Roberto Pazzi ("Conclave"), emphasized that our
values are the same.
I'll take their word for it--not yours.


Chris Mark