William Shawcross

Pax Americana

William Shawcross says Europeans are hypocritical, isolationist and deluded in their attempts to hobble the greatest power on earth

issue 12 April 2003

Tony Blair has played a blinder on Iraq, standing for the Iraqi people, with the United States, and up to the French and Germans. He has quite rightly said that after the war is over, ‘there is going to have to be a discussion; indeed, a reckoning about the relations between Europe and America.’

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