A Page on the World
The United States of Europe
T.R. Reid makes the case for the EU being the United States' greatest threat.
Reviewed by Melvin Rhodes
"The European Union is the greatest threat to American interests in the world today." So said T.R. Reid on NPR's Diane Rehm Show toward the end of December. Mr. Reid is a Washington Post correspondent who was the head of the paper's London bureau for years. His interview was to promote his new book The United States of Europe: The New Superpower and the End of American Supremacy.
After being interviewed by Ms. Rehm, Mr. Reid took call-in questions. One caller asked him if the European Union was a fulfillment of Bible prophecies about the coming Beast power. Mr. Reid clearly did not know anything about this.
His book, then, is a strictly secular account by an American observer of the contemporary European scene. And his book backs up his point that the EU is the greatest threat to American interests in the world at this time—greater even than Islamic terrorism. A threat does not have to be violent to be serious.
"At the dawn of the twenty-first century, a geopolitical revolution of historic dimensions is under way across the Atlantic: the unification of Europe. Twenty-five nations have joined together—with another dozen or so on the waiting list—to build a common economy, government, and culture. Europe is a more integrated place today than at any time since the Roman Empire." So begins the "Prologue" to Mr. Reid's book.
He adds on the same page: "The New Europe cannot match American military strength (and doesn't want to, for that matter). But it has more votes in every international organization than the United States, and it gives away far more money in development aid. The result is global economic and political clout that makes the European Union exactly what its leaders want it to be: a second superpower that can stand on an equal footing with the United States."
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