Posted on 03/14/2003 5:47:33 PM PST by GLDNGUN
While most are aware by now that President Bush, British Prime Minister Tony Blair and Spanish Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar will confer Sunday in the Azores, it seems just as many do not realize the weight of this meeting. This truly is a “war council”...
If the Clinton regime will not go quietly into that good night, the Bush Administration finally needs to give them a good shove into the dustbin.
You and my fellow Freepers are more than welcome. It looks like things are continuing to line up as foreseen. Reuters is now reporting "British Armed Forces Minister Adam Ingram said on Saturday that the world could be in the last days before a U.S.-led war with Iraq. Ingram also said that it was looking less likely that the United States, Britain and Spain would succeed in pushing through a second resolution authorizing military action against Baghdad if Iraq did not fully disarm. Asked if he agreed with a comment by Belgium's defense minister the world was in the last days before a conflict, Ingram replied: 'I think that language which has been used over recent days in London would lead us to that conclusion as well.'"
Keep the faith and keep saying your prayers. "(And) it's less likely we'll get that second resolution. But that does not mean to say we should not continue to try to do so," he told reporters at a European Union defense ministers' meeting in Athens.
This has shown the battle lines here at home... overseas and around the world... We know the nations and organizations that hate liberty, freedom and despise us. WE see clearly the vestiges of a once dead soviet now born again socialist organization with a decentralized random attack collection of collaborators that are NOT clearly chargeable to any nation specifically at any particular point in time.
Communism, has evolved into something else, more hideous and evil than before... and it's ability to mutate and invade political and geographical boundaries is a sight to behold.
Many leaders of this mutated form of tyranny are from right here in the USA. I personally believe that the Democrats are the host of this disease in its more benign form... but the cancer is spreading.
Any attempt at a liberty based, alliance for free nations, if it is to be good and not evil... could never arise from the corrupted bed of dictators and third world thugs in the old UN organization.
Bravo if we can pull it off... and shame on us if we do not try...
No more UN for US-list
If people want on or off this list, please let me know.
" O ye that love mankind! Ye that dare oppose, not only the tyranny, but the tyrant, stand forth! Every spot of the old world is overrun with oppression. Freedom hath been hunted round the globe. Asia, and Africa, have long expelled her. Europe regards her like a stranger, and England hath given her warning to depart. O! receive the fugitive, and prepare in time an asylum for mankind."-Common Sense, 1776
I think that this is not likely, although it has made itself a lot more of a "EU" stalking horse.
I think that France's actions have a lot to do with its world-view as a leader in "liberal" thinking. It sees itself a central to the future EU political structure and the EU as central to keeping the US from being a force that controls the whole world, not through Empire, but from strength of the US in relation to the rest of the world.
The forces of what Hayek called Rationalist Totalitarian Democracy were born in France and that politcal life-force is alive and well there and, by extension within the EU. The French see the UN as the next step in Global Government empowered by the ideals formulated under the long struggle for this form of politcal thinking.
What the US will need to do, in furtherence of its long-term interests, is kill the idea of legitimacy flowing from numbers.
If I decide to mug you, does my having 10 of my friends approve of my actions make it right? How about a hundred? At what point does the "magic" come in?
The original underlying philosophy of the US Constitution was that certain acts wrong, without regards to how popular they might be. That's the foundation of the Bill of Rights, that the government may not legitimately violate certain rights of the people, no matter how popular the measures might be with a temporary majority
One fundamental right is the right of self-defense, from which follows the right to take out a clear and present danger to your security.
GLDNGUN, thank you for an interesting post. There were some diplomatic curve balls in the runup to the first Gulf war, but nothing close to what we're seeing now. I hope your analysis proves to be correct.
Here's the thing: I've noticed that the First Cavalry and the 2nd Armored Cavarly Regiment both got their alert orders rather late in the game.
I don't think they're going to Central Command at all. I think that they're going to the Pacific coast for possible deployment to Korea.
Be Seeing You,
Chris
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