An Open Letter to Europe

Right Wing News ^ | 1/04/01 | John Hawkins

[Archfiend]

-- When we prepare to hit Iraq Europe will have it's first real test...

[Jewels1091]

I hope this actually makes it into all the European newspapers!

[malarski]

Why don't we just nuke'm for not agreeing with our point of view.

[Draco]

"Why don't we just nuke them for not agreeing with our point of view." Well, (a) you are being sarcastic and forgot the sarcasm html tag, or (b) you think their viewpoint is legitimate. What is so abhorent about banishing terrorism and defending oneself? Aren't the Euros always clamoring for "disarmament"? Why not disarm those who use weapons against innocent people? Like terrorists, who make no apology nor hide their intent? Lastly, as the first generation of my family not imprisoned by European fascists and communists for daring to disagree with those European regimes I only know that I don't get tossed in prison for disagreeing in the United States. So if you are option (b), above, my own familial experience is that the Euro's history is one of "Nuke (actually "Gas 'em") if they don't agree." Hope you are Option (a).

[cpdiii]

The Brits will give men, money and risk their lives, the French will try and turn a profit, the Germans will make a lot of noise and do nothing, the Italians and Spanish will send men and planes as they have had experience with terrorists and did not like it.

[veronica]

Looks like it's about time for Rush Limbaugh to bring back that ditty he used to play during the Gulf War - 'Bomb Bomb Bomb, Bomb Bomb Iraq', (sung to the tune of The Beach Boys hit 'Barbara Anne'......) All together now!

[Archfiend]

I hope so. I still have this sinking feeling that Europe will not only refuse to help but will stand on the sidelines and carp the whole time instead. If they take that attitude, to Hell with them as far as I'm concerned.

[Zviadist]

Why don't we just nuke'm for not agreeing with our point of view.

Now Malarski, don't be negative. I am sure our allies took this in the spirit of friendship that it was meant...

[CommiesOut]

Why of course the people don't want war. Why should some poor slob on a farm want to risk his life in a war when the best he can get out of it is to come back to his farm in one piece? Naturally the common people don't want war: neither in Russia, nor in England, nor for that matter in Germany. That is understood. But, after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the peacemakers for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country.

Hermann Göring

[jmp702]

bttt

[CommiesOut]

What a strange times. eh?

In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.

George Orwell

[LaBelleDameSansMerci]

Rolling is fun. Why do you think we invented the wheel?

[jmp702]

"Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper. Truth itself becomes suspicious by being put into that polluted vehicle... Perhaps an editor might begin a reformation in some such way as this. Divide his paper into four chapters, heading the 1st, Truths. 2d, Probabilities. 3d, Possibilities. 4th, Lies. The first chapter would be very short."
-- Thomas Jefferson, 1807

"There is no such thing, at this date of the world's history, in America, as an independent press. The business of the journalists is to destroy the truth, to lie outright, to pervert, to vilify, to fawn at the feet of mammon, and to sell his country and his race for his daily bread. We are the tools and vassals of rich men behind the scenes. We are the jumping jacks, they pull the strings and we dance. Our talents, our possibilities and our lives are all the property of other men. We are intellectual prostitutes."
John Swinton, Chief of Staff New York Times at New York Press Club, 1953

[Zviadist]

This is classic. Where'd you find it?

[CommiesOut]

Don't look in LAT. They already spiked their version of this news.
Catch it while it lasts:
"If we suspect you of terrorism you better be squeaky clean"

[jmp702]

"The old parties are husks, with no real soul within either, divided on artificial lines, boss-ridden and privilege-controlled, each a jumble of incongruous elements, and neither daring to speak out wisely and fearlessly on what should be said on the vital issues of the day." -- Theodore Roosevelt

"By and by when each nation has 20,000 battleships and 5,000,000 soldiers we shall all be safe and the wisdom of statesmanship will stand confirmed." -- Mark Twain

[LaBelleDameSansMerci]

My contribution:

"...We are now so stultified in our thinking and so priggish in our expressions that it becomes unavoidably offensive to tell the truth..."

---Johann Georg Hamann

[x]

If the terrorists had crashed a plane into the Houses of Parliament, the Eiffel Tower, the Brandenburg Gate or the Colosseum, Europe would view things differently. They may have had plans to do so that didn't work, but the result is a "divide and conquer strategy," that separates the US from Europe.

But the problem with a "war against terrorism" is that it can be infinitely expanded. Spain attacking France for harboring Basque terrorists. France and Italy fighting because the other isn't doing enough about Corsican or Sardinian terrorists. Dittos for Greece and Turkey over Cyprus. British paras going into Boston, Brooklyn, and Philadelphia to clean out bars that fund the IRA. Sandinistas and Contras taking out American politicians who supported one faction or the other. India fighting Pakistan, Sri Lanka fighting India. The charge that someone else is harboring terrorists can be a warrant to invade almost any country, anywhere, anytime.

We may wish that Europe shared our sorrows and our desire for justice more, but if they drag their feet there is some logic in it. It's not clear that taking out five countries because they may have had some connection to terrorist groups in the past or because we don't like their rulers would really be to our advantage in the long run.

Crush all your enemies to achieve absolute world power and you yourself become what the world fears and tries to combat. Bush and the Europeans recognize this. Neo-con war hawks don't.