Solana on American Christianity

SOLANA LAMENTS RIFT BETWEEN EUROPE AND 'RELIGIOUS' US
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By Judy Dempsey
Financial Times; Jan 08, 2003
...And despite rhetoric about the values that bind both sides of the Atlantic, Mr Solana says Europe
and the US are growing further apart. The reason, he says, is a "cultural phenomenon" that goes
beyond the pattern of US foreign policy swings between unilateralism and multilateralism. This
time, says Mr Solana, the unilateralist pendulum is being driven by religion.
The US was increasingly viewing things as if in a religious context. "It is a kind of binary
model," says Mr Solana, reverting to language he used when he was a professor of solid-state
physics. "It is all or nothing. For us Europeans, it is difficult to deal with because we are secular.
We do not see the world in such black and white terms."
Although well aware of the strength of the US religious right, Mr Solana is surprised at how
religion has permeated the White House's thinking. Nowhere is this plainer, he says, than in the
language used by the Bush administration since the September 11 attacks: with us or against us,
rogue states, axis of evil, right and wrong, good and bad.
"The choice of language on the two sides of the Atlantic is revealing," says Mr Solana

Waitaminute, I remeber someone from Solana's own organization saying something very similar to what Bush said(which I agree, oversimplifies things):

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"Critics of the EU’s secret plans to bring back the failed European constitution by stealth at this week’s summit were blasted by the Italian President, Giorgio Napolitano.

The Italian head of state told a news conference in Siena last week that "those who are anti EU are terrorists".

And he attacked eurosceptics who warn that the promised new EU treaty will go too far in eroding the powers of member states, saying: "It is psychological terrorism to suggest the spectre of a European superstate."

If that's not hypocritical, I don't know what is. I believe that Mr. Solana is correct in saying that "The choice of language on the two sides of the Atlantic is revealing".