Ronald Reagan is conspicuous in his omission. The Cold War would still be continuing if DemocRATS had been in power during the eighties.
I'm sure it was just an oversight. The IHNYTimes would NEVER want to miss an opportunity to credit Reagan for his accomplishments. (sarcasm)
You are correct. And that is precisely what Europeans such as M. Lellouche miss the most. Europe was the focus of the Cold War and as such had a disproportionate influence on world affairs despite a nearly nonexistent contribution to her own security. That Europe does not today enjoy. The Soviet Union was not an enemy out to conquer them, it was simply a lever of power for the moral relativists to control the direction of foreign policies of countries much larger and more powerful than their own.
This is not simply cynicism, it goes a very long way to explain the nearly insane Old European resentment of the Free World's victory in the Cold War and Reagan's part in it. This was the fertile ground on which a number of welfare states flourished, and it, and they, are much less congenial now that the slightest gesture toward Moscow on the part of Paris or Bonn no longer sends Washington D.C. into a tizzy of accommodation.
It is, frankly, no longer news that there exists a great deal of anti-American sentiment in the corridors of the kept. What is news is that it is beginning to be cordially reciprocated. I think M. Lellouche would do well to consider that the current, vehement, and continuing wave of anti-Europeanism in the United States is a far more significant trend than the tantrums we've been hearing from the continent for the last four decades.