American strategic thinking has begun to look beyond the traditional hub-and-spoke model of postwar alliances.

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Twice this year, President Bush crossed the Atlantic to confirm what he had momentarily forgotten after September 11: That his allies of choice are across the Atlantic, not one country at a time but all of them together, as a Union. Mr. Blair should know that he can depend on his partner across the Atlantic to move on with this ambitious agenda of relance; but Mr. Blair's privileged partners across the Channel should also believe that they can depend on him to make of the next six months the new beginning to which they aspire, notwithstanding the public apprehensions unveiled over the past weeks.

In short, for all the differences that exist between the United States and the states of Europe, and for all the personal clashes between heads of state and government on both sides of the Atlantic, Europe matters to America, and America to Europe, because converging concerns, compatible values, and overlapping interests make of each the other"s partner of choice.

But with the Cold War a full decade behind, and with many dangerous years of an unpredictable war against terrorism looming ahead, the transatlantic connection has rarely seemed to be at the same time so uncertain and so important.