A wonderful article in the London Times on anti-Americanism in both Europe and the United States, and how it has shaped the response to the recent crisis. http://www.sunday-times.co.uk/news/pages/sti/2001/09/23/stiusausa01024.html One point I would make in difference to the author - the astonishing response of people around the world to the attack shows that the United States has made far more friends than enemies this century - it's just that its friends are usually quiet. Elite opinion and mass opinion are disconnected all over the world, and much of elite opinion's hostility to the United States is driven precisely by the need for elites to believe something different than what the "ordinary" person does. But we spent forty years locked in mortal combat with the Soviet Union - and when the attack happened, flowers were delivered by the truckload to the American embassy in Moscow. That is a far better picture of world opinion than the BBC's Question Time. God Bless America, Gautam Mukunda Administrator Fifth Annual "Jubilee" Russian Investment Symposium Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs John F. Kennedy School of Government Harvard University 79 John F. Kennedy Street Cambridge, MA 02138 Direct: +1.617.495.3043 Fax: +1.617.495.8963 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] "I say to our enemies: We are coming. God may have mercy on you, but we won't." - Senator John McCain "Freedom is not free."
