Bush needs to start strongarming Western Europe....
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Yes he does, and about a WHOLE LOT of issues, like selling arms to Commie China. An absolutely MAD IDEA that needs to be squashed hard! --- while Bush has given some lip-service to this issue, I would publicly announce the consequence of TOTALLY SEVERING any type of high technology transfer or trade with Western Europe. (Hello France and Germany). GWB had better get REAL TOUGH on this issue. Big-time.
He can get tough with Europe all he wants, but it's far too late. The media on this side of the Atlantic has done a terrible job of education America about the sea change in attitude by the driving forces behind the EU. Even many of our most "internationally minded" congresscritters (McCain to name one, though he seems to be very slowly getting it) don't seem to understand what's staring us in the face. I sincerely hope that the glad-handing and smoke-blowing over Bush's fence-mending trip to Europe does not become pervasive. The trip should be the final nail in the coffin of decoupling, proving to us once and for all that Europe is not and will never again be a hand-in-hand partner.