Pull our troops out of Germany and relocate them to Iraq.
Sniveling, appeasing, quasi-communists. The Europe of today and tomorrow.
“Then consider Germany and France, arguably the greatest free-riding beneficiaries of American security since World War II.”
Free-riding ? I’m sure there’s a German Freeper out there who could tell me how much of NATO’s military expenditures has been picked by Germany, but I sure wouldn’t call that a free ride. As for France, after it left NATO’s integrated military command all of it’s military expenditures are paid in full by the French taxpayers for the past 42 years, no charge to the US...
Spain has become irrelevant. It is also the Western European Nation with the lowest birth replacement rate. Spain has about 40 million Spanish citizens. There numbers will be cut in half every 35 years. By the end of this century they will disappear from the map.
...behind the spin, the 26-member NATO Summit (arguably the most important such gathering since the end of the Cold War) exposed a security-dependent Europe that is divided, weak, and fickle above all else. Consider Spain, for example, where newly re-elected Socialist Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero was far less concerned about Spanish (or European) security than about getting some one-on-one face-time with US President George W Bush. Zapatero, a self-proclaimed feminist pacifist who is arguably the most anti-American leader in Europe today, is (unsurprisingly) one of the only such Europeans never to have been invited to the White House. But in the Byzantine logic of Spanish politics, that elusive visit to the Oval Office... also happens to be the main litmus test by which Spaniards will judge whether Zapatero gets promoted from provincial politician to international "statesman" during his second term. Thus Zapatero's permanent non-relationship with the most powerful leader in the free world has become something of a media obsession in Spain... Zapatero was captured in a politically devastating Summit photograph sitting in isolation, while the rest of the leaders present were huddled around Bush at the other end of the conference hall. The picture, which made the front page of every newspaper in Spain, opened up yet another pained debate about Spain's declining influence in the world since Zapatero took office... In France, meanwhile, the government on April 8 faced down a vote of no confidence, as leftists accused French President Nicolas Sarkozy of a dangerous "Atlanticist drift"... Socialist leader Francois Hollande said Sarkozy decided to send 700 French troops to Afghanistan "under pressure from the Americans"...
After all, today's Europeans are descended from peasants who didn't have the backbone to pack up and head to America when they had the chance.
Their grandchildren and great-grandchildren inherited their temerity.
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Yup...it’s like the liberals all lined up just to talk to Bush, or shake his hand at the State of the Union speeches...
the Obamas, and Harry Reids, etc. etc.
They have always, like the Euroweenies detested those with spines, yet realize in the real world they’d not BE here without them!