To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Excellent article. Thanks for posting it.
7 posted on
02/02/2002 12:28:31 AM PST by
Aeronaut
To: Aeronaut
"...But we suspect that
should the United States withdraw from Afghanistan
and leave Europeans to deal with motley Taliban leftovers,
all their peacekeepers would leave Kabul tomorrow.
We not the U.N.,
the EU,
NATO,
or any other alphabet-soup collective
fought al Qaeda and will soon rid the world of Saddam Hussein.
Moderates in the region
(and Europeans)
would rather trade with,
than free, Iraq.
The pre-September 11 dogma argued that
well-meaning and often valuable international groups
like the Red Cross,
the United Nations,
Amnesty International,
and a host of other organizations headquartered in Brussels,
the Hague,
Geneva,
or London
were both intellectually superior to,
and far more moral than,
almost any American institution
whether it be the U.S. Congress
or the Peace Corps.
But what we have seen instead from most of them
is either inaction at best
or abject hypocrisy at worst."
30 posted on
02/02/2002 9:44:43 AM PST by
vannrox
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