Your argument is ridiculous because the sanctions ordered by the UN were not supposed to be unilateral. They werea approved by France and the UN. That is the point, Europe lied, cheated and actually sided with the enemy that they were supposed to be sanctioning. There were NO UNILATERAL sanctions. Europe is like a philandering lover who doesn't have the guts to leave his rich wife, so he just goes on cheating and being irresponsible. The real problem is Europe's moral relativity, it makes it impossible to trust them, because they have no honor. But, Iran's nukes will be able to reach Europe, not the US, and we just might not come to the rescue this time.
We did heip with Europe's security, remember Bosnia? Serbia? That wasn't in the US interest to go in there. Europe asked us to, and we responded. Why didn't you handle it yourselves?
As far as the Kyoto treaty is concerned, it was designed to hurt the US economy. It was pointless and even those countries that did sign it, made no attempt to honor it. The US actually made greater strides in the reduction of CO2 than Canada. Without China and India being included, any worldwide agreement is useless. That's the reason that even the wacko environmentalists have abandon Kyoto in favor of the Earth Charter. But, I don't believe in the whole hullaballoo over global warming, anyway. It's just leftist
scare tactics to push for world socialism. It's not even good science, it's feminized science, just another postmodern metanarrative with a catastrophic ending that the socialists must save us from.
The best answer to our problems is to drill more oil, in both Alaska and the Gulf of Mexico, and the California coast, come up with other types of alternative fuels (not bio)and reduce the price of oil on the world market, at least for the US. Then we can allow the Muslims to behead each other and blow themselves to kingdom come, as long as the leave Israel alone.
Just to put a few things straight. Yes, Iranian nukes are theoretically able to reach Europe. But did you know that they also can reach the 5th Avenue in New York in the trunk of a Dodge sedan in combination with one of those suicide idiots? This should be far more effective -from the Iraninan point of view- than a direct attack of Europe that would for sure be answered immediately by a few hundred submarine based French warheads. The worst thing that could happen is, if they are able to steal the nuclear fuel for a bomb out of a former Soviet stockpile. In this case you Americans will probably never find out where the nuke in New York really came from. This scenario is far more probable than Iranian ICBMs on Europe.
Just to make you understand and to put some things straight: I have family in New York and therefore I have personal interest that such will never happen. We Europeans have no benefit if the US are falling.
Honour? BuHuHaHa! Yes we have honour. But that is a fundamental difference to being just your servant.
And talking about rescue - it was indeed convienient for us that you did the unpleasant work in Bosina and Serbia. It is the same thing like with Airbus and their subsidies. Leave this business to us Europeans and we are forced to solve those problems by ourselves. You see: American intervention can be politically contraproductive.
I don't believe in the whole hullaballoo over global warming, anyway. It's just leftist scare tactics to push for world socialism. It's not even good science, it's feminized science, just another postmodern metanarrative with a catastrophic ending that the socialists must save us from.
Well I do quite a lot of skiing in the Alps and I already was able to observe the outcome of the global warming by myself. The glaciers I know are just 2/3 of the size they have been in the 70ties, when I was a kid. There must be a reason for this. Ignoring the problem will not solve it.
I have nothing against something different than Kyoto if it helps to deal with the problem. Nevertheless you Americans waste far too much energy without any need. It would be in your own interest to find new solutions. Building more efficient cars and house is easy. Just buy the technology for it in Europe. ;)