PRAGUE – As I listened to what some Europeans were saying as my country prepared to take over the presidency of the European Union, I heard dim echoes of Neville Chamberlain’s infamous description of Czechoslovakia as “a faraway country of which we know little.” I suppose that Donald Rumsfeld’s misguided bid a few years ago to incite a divide between “new and old” Europe contributed to the re-emergence of that disdainful attitude.
布拉格&#45;&#45;当捷克准备接手成为欧盟轮值主席国的时候，有些欧洲人议论我国。我听到他们言论好像是张伯伦对捷克斯洛伐克声名狼藉评论的回音，那也就是，我们是“一个很少听说的穷乡僻壤国家”。几年前，拉姆斯菲尔德想要把欧洲分出“新欧洲”和“老欧洲”实为不智，但是他的这一言论确重新体现了这一令人厌恶态度。