We have work to do at home and abroad. If they get in the way, they will suffer. Otherwise, they can stand on the sidelines and bleat likie bewildered sheep.
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Congressman Billybob
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We have work to do at home and abroad. If they get in the way, they will suffer. Otherwise, they can stand on the sidelines and bleat like bewildered sheep.
For the kind of work we have to do at home, click the second link below.
Congressman Billybob
Click for latest column: "Good People, Naked People, People Who Are Wet and Wild."
"Iraq? Stay put — we don't necessarily need or desire your help. The Middle East? Shame on you, not us, for financing the terrorists on the West Bank. The Palestinian Authority and Israel? You helped to fund a terrorist clique; we, a democracy — go figure. Racism? Arabs are safer in America than Jews are in Europe. That 200,000 were butchered in Bosnia and Kosovo a few hours from Rome and Berlin is a stain on you, the inactive, not us, the interventionist. Capital punishment? Our government has executed terrorists; yours have freed them. Do the moral calculus."
I think the Euros have taken us for granted so long they just assume they can take sides against us out of habit and we will always be there when they need us. What I see is real hostility among the American people towards the Euros where before they were simply annoying. A lot of Euros are saying they won't let us use bases in their country in the fight against Iraq. We should tell them if they don't we leave NATO and they are on their own.
Heap scorn and derision to the heights of the Twin Towers themselves on the quisling Euro Left and the worthless socialist governments it has spawned, but remember that their best men (be they French Foriegn Legion, Bundeswehr, Italian Army/Navy, or Her Majesty's Troops) are with us in spirit, at least until their bosses strap on a set.
If I may contribute one minor point re Germany:
Chancellor Schroeder (separated from Clinton at birth) has indeed fired up his craven pandering to overdrive, hoping to score points with his electorate at U.S. expense.
"Germany," he says, "will not join any U.S. action against Iraq because there is no UN security council mandate."
(I'm sure Rumsfeld is crestfallen, he had so been hoping the Panzergrenadiere would carry the burden of the war.)
Ironically, however, the German association of Bundeswehr officers has slapped Schroeder in the face with a polite reminder that the security council has not even been asked yet for a resolution. By not waiting for such a vote, the association said, Schroeder is shoowing disrespect for the United Nations and the principle of international law that he supposedly holds dear.
Heheh. Schroeder and his minions are beside themselves with rage (Who's in charge here! etc.), but they can't help looking more and more pathetic every day.
After we are through nuking Iraq and Saudi Arabia it might be to our benefit to include Europe. Then we can repopulate the empty expanse with an American colonization.
Noted above is the distinct likelihood that the greatest European opposition to American resolve vis a vis Iraq/Saddam is in its government/media elite, steeped in socialism/globalism, ignorant of the texture of the facts on the ground.
We here are shedding our media like so much snakeskin, empty and useless, as the sinewy strength evolves.
Sullivan has laid out in dense clarity the perception of European condescension by Americans with sleeves rolled up.
It's clear that all would not be swell had not U.S. and Russian armies driven to the very block above Hitler's bunker--as they must do in Baghdad.
It's not for nothing that Bush labelled Iran, Iraq and North Korea the Axis of Evil, as they flank the Anus of Evil: China.
China is currently aiding Al Qaeda in Pakistan as it did in Afghanistan, as it provided Saddam with fiber optic links for his air defense, and (through its deniable sock puppet North Korea) the various Scud derivatives of Taipodong-types, themselves derived from Chinese No Dong technology--and all, of course, improved by traitor-rapist42 and his donors Schwartz/Armstrong Loral/Hughes.
The French sip wine as the Israeli Embassy in Paris is destroyed by fire, having denied us airspace to hit Kadafi.
Should Al Qaeda fly hijacked aircraft into their Eiffel Tower, would they not simply headline it, "Le Eiffel hit--Where was Israel?"
Oui.