"Who are our friends?" asks Thomas Kleine-Brockhoff in his article about German foreign policy. The author puts Chancellor Schröder's and President Bush's policy on peace and freedom into an interesting perspective and gives a good explanation about the cultural and historical roots of its difference, going back to the American Revolution and the beginning of the nation state in Europe. The author fails to draw a clear line between twiddling one's thumbs and unobtrusiveness, since diplomacy is often low-key and pressure on another government can be open or concealed. A point I agree to is that hypocrisy, in respect to foreign policy, living up to expectations, promises and own ideas, is not monopolized at all.

Die Zeit - Politik : Who are our friends?

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