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Jamie Shea's summaries followed me to Paris. His triumphant reports
certainly helped feed the anti-Americanism which, in recent years, had very
much subsided. Unfortunately, General Clark's reports, mostly addressed to
an American readership, sounded triumphalist when translated into Italian
and French, and reinforced all the negative stereotypes seized upon to crit–
icize us. What's more, the war was being compared to Vietnam, as another
attack on a small country by the only remaining superpower. Now that the
left is in government in most Central European countries, this situation
has encouraged a new New Left to emerge. Whether the recent terrorist
attacks in both countries are isolated events, or are perpetrated by a resur–
gence of the former Red Brigades or other groups with similar aims, is a
moot point: Kosovo, among other things, is being used as a means to revive
an anti-Americanism we thought had been licked, and to destabilize the
socialist governments that, like Pareto's foxes, have turned into the new
lions-and have left room now for a new species of fox.
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