ABSTRACT
THE FIRST FEW MONTHS OF 2003 saw the gravest crisis in transat-lantic relations since-well, you could pick: perhaps since the debate over the deployment of Pershing intermediate-range nuclear missiles and nuclear-tipped cruise missiles in Europe in 1982-83, when hundreds of thousands took to the streets in protest. Or 1967, when Charles de Gaulle abruptly withdrew France from NATO and forced all U.S. and allied forces off French soil. Or the Suez crisis of 1956, when the United States sided with Egypt’s Gamal Abdel Nasser rather than its erstwhile allies Britain and France after Nasser nationalized the Suez Canal, which the French had built.
