Thursday, September 18, 2003
A Tale of Two Europes: One can get depressed reading this Tom Friedman column about French spite, malice and insecurity. Or one can feel better about some Europeans by reading this op-ed by Vaclav Havel, Arpad Goncz and Lech Walesa. ... Unfortunately, Havel, Goncz and Walesa are slowly fading into the past, while the future appears to belong to the bourgeois hip Dominique de Villepin and the rest of his balance-of-power groupies.
