When they have gone 25 years without such an incident, I promise to return to listen to more about their superior ways. |
Posted on 07/22/2002 9:43:39 AM PDT by G. Chapman
When they have gone 25 years without such an incident, I promise to return to listen to more about their superior ways. |
Shimon Peres needs to go home to Europe.
I'd say, based on the article, Europe is
becoming more demanding of world socialism,
a socialism of equality of nations regardless of
their power. Since Europe is powerless, relative
to the US, and has a natural proclivity for socialism
on the societal level, it is expected they would
try to hobble the lone superpower with international
law and multilateralism.
Did you notice the practice of the author in this
article regarding multinational organizations?
The Warsaw Pact and the UN get capital
letters. Alas, nato is just that. To the extent
this reveals the author's views, it saps his
analysis of objectivity.
In other words, postwar Europe is, for only slightly different reasons, postwar Japan.
But maybe the fact we had two bloody destructive wars 1914-1918 1939-145 both faught on European soil both which led to wholesale destruction, might have something to do wwithy Europes more insular behavior.
Not like America after just one year of the great war, and after Vietnam, you were raring to get invloved in the world.
You were lucky that you were devided from the rest of us by the Atlantic and Pacific, you were never bombed from the air.
And during the last of the 20th century Europe was once more ready to fight a war even more destructive than the first, which would of left Europe devestated.
Tony
Americans are idealists, but they have no experience of promoting ideals successfully without power.
Actually, we have a history of that early on - to a very great degree, the antimonarchical movement in France was motivated by cross-oceanic enthusiasm for the American War of Independence. It was American ideas, not power, that helped put Louis and Marie Antoinette's heads on the block. That, and the resulting events, proved a mixed blessing for the people of France.
The notion that some new form of government will bring its adherents past the old nationalism into an era of Kantian "permanent peace" is not a new one - it, as well as the aforementioned guillotine, grew out of the Enlightenment and was shattered by the Prussians and helped lead to the rise of Napoleon. It was promised by Marx as well upon the accession of the proletariat, and ended up in a war between the Poles and the nascent Red Army under Trotsky. It is a pipe dream, albeit a popular one. "Beat the plowshares back into swords, the other was only a maiden aunt's fantasy." (Robert Heinlein)
Can you say "Pearl Harbor"?
I thought you could!
That did look odd, didn't it? But NATO, FDR and so on are capitalized properly in the source.
Bump for an interesting read.
Tony
Pearl Harbor was one attack against a naval base, it was not designed to inflict terror on a civilian population, as in Madrid, Warsaw, Lyons, Dresdon, Belgrade and a whole host of other European cities.
The wifes parents were both bombed out of there homes and were living in refugees camps until 1946/47.
Tony
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I have been impressed by the various lofty words and the numerous Belgians wearing suits that characterize today's Europe. I am also glad to hear that this week, they have a plan for no longer being such a cesspool of war and genocide.