"There is a new generation coming up that has no memory of the Soviet threat as the basis of a special relationship with the United States," Rafael Estrella, a Spanish legislator and president of the NATO parliamentary assembly, said in an interview.
"Young people think of America in terms of the culprit behind the death penalty, global warming, the bombs over Baghdad and the use of depleted-uranium weapons in Kosovo. For governing coalitions in Europe, it means when the next international crisis comes it will be much harder to rally people behind the United States.
[snip]