[Broadside Joe]

Well gee I guess that means we boycott all things 'Old Europe'. Start making a list.

[areafiftyone]

Well well well the NY Slimes is just a bundle of good news today as always. (/sarcasm)

Check out this story Employers Balk at New Hiring, Despite Growth. No wonder the DUers and Democrats love this paper so much. It takes any good news about this country and screws it around in the opposite direction. They make me sick!

[RiflemanSharpe]

Free trade is going to cost his country more then most of us can imagine.

[Savage Beast]

"It's a basic lesson: union equals might and strength."

In other words: "United we stand. Divided we fall."

Strange that the Europeans should be discovering this axiom at the very time they are dangerously dividing the Western Alliance though its unity is needed as much as any time in history!

President Bush should call for a summit meeting of the leaders of NATO and Russia as soon as possible. These leaders should work out a plan to bring Russia into NATO and all of these nations into a strong political and economic alliance. The problems of international terrorism, Third World immigration, and shrinking Western populations should be a part of the discussion.

A strong Western Alliance, including Russia, is essential to the future of the world and is important to victory in the War Against Terror.

[Always Right]

The EU is acting like a rouge terrorist group. You appease the arogant bastards and they ask for more. I would put the steel teriffs back immediately.

[blanknoone]

Europe needs to get "punched its weight" in the nose.

What is the appropriate response? I am a free trader...I don't want to burden Americans with higher prices, but this certainly demands a response. First and foremost it means we MUST get our troops out of Europe, including the Balkans. There are bases all across America closing that would love that contingent.

Second, I think we should seriously consider pulling out of NATO if members, including france and Germany don't assist, including with the deployment of troops, in Iraq.

I think we should also consider imposing technology export restrictions to Europe. They are now the enemy.

I think we should also try to instigate an eastern european trade block centered on Russia, Ukraine and Belarus.

We should also consider claiming 51 represntatives and votes at the next international conference until such time as the EU sends a single rep.

I think we should start doing what we have been accused of and our european 'friends' have been doing for quite some time...industrial espianoge by the state.

If things get much worse, I think we should point out to the Islamic extremists that france is the low hanging fruit.

Last and certainly not least, America should focus on creating an international group that represents, rather than falsely proclaims, our values. As such, it is pretty clearly the english-language world with a few others like potentially Japan. We don't need to get out of the UN, but we do need to make it irrelevant.

What did I miss?

[gcruse]

"There's obviously a very strong feeling in the industry that we were used..."

Yeah, like a prostitute is 'used' by paying her up front, only to have her withhold the bought-and-paid-for client servicing.  You got your money, guys, where were the votes? 

[DeepDish]

Lamy and company have made no bones that the tariffs the EUs threatened on the US were targeted at what are considered key states in the 2004 elections. In other words it was a clear attempt to interfere with the leadership and governance of the United States. To make it plain, they feel better qualified to appoint Americas leadership than the people themselves. Their actions by any rational measure present a CLEAR AND PRESENT DANGER to the United States and as such are a cassus beli (cause for war).