Anglo-Saxon Attitude

AFTER “second thoughts” on the Vietnam War and the Sixties, are we about to have second thoughts on European unity? That would be an innovation insofar as most of the second-thoughters until now have been former radicals, like Peter Collier and David Horowitz, reconsidering left-wing causes, while those now discovering what the British call Euro-skepticism are members in good standing of the foreign-policy establishment and of Bosnywash Academy, and they are rethinking one of the staples of postwar American diplomacy.

You could hardly have two men more securely rooted in the establishment than Henry Kissinger and Martin Feldstein. Yet Dr. Kissinger recently astonished the Trilateral Commission when he expressed anxiety that a united Europe might be a rival to America rather than an ally. And in Foreign Affairs Martin Feldstein of Harvard poured cold water on Europe’s forthcoming single currency, the Euro, as no panacea but likely instead to aggravate economic and political strains in Europe.

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John O’Sullivan

John O’Sullivan is a senior fellow at National Review Institute and a contributing editor of National Review.

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AFTER “second thoughts” on the Vietnam War and the Sixties, are we about to have second thoughts on European unity? That would be an innovation insofar as most of the second-thoughters until now have been former radicals, like Peter Collier and David Horowitz, reconsidering left-wing causes, while those now discovering what the British call Euro-skepticism are members in good standing of the foreign-policy establishment and of Bosnywash Academy, and they are rethinking one of the staples of postwar American diplomacy.

You could hardly have two men more securely rooted in the establishment than Henry Kissinger and Martin Feldstein. Yet Dr. Kissinger recently astonished the Trilateral Commission when he expressed anxiety that a united Europe might be a rival to America rather than an ally. And in Foreign Affairs Martin Feldstein of Harvard poured cold water on Europe’s forthcoming single currency, the Euro, as no panacea but likely instead to aggravate economic and political strains in Europe.