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Title: Teething pains of a new Old European
Review: To paraphrase a famous scene from the film Casablanca, George Soros is "shocked, shocked" to see that the United States uses military power to enforce its will from time to time. He thinks the US should act more like the new, post-Cold War Europe, which relies on international cooperation and political chicanery to achieve its ends. That the new, post-Cold war Europe can do this because its ends duck most of the world's thornier issues gets skipped over in the Soros telling. For a more responsible, more educated and far more interesting account of how and why the US and Europe behave the way they do in global affairs, read Robert Kagan's article "Power and Weakness", which may be downloaded for free at www.policyreview.org. That Soros tries to turn Kagan and his Project for the New American Century into a warmongering caricature, rather than openly debate his thought-process, is just one more hypocritical flaw in this one-sided book.
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