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Politics : I Will Continue to Continue, to Pretend....
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To: Sully- who wrote (7805)3/8/2005 9:12:31 AM
From: Sully-   of 35834
 
Why Europe is Useless in the War on Terrorism

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A lot of it has to do with cowardice and sloth, of course, but the main thing is that they Europeans couldn't fight even if they wanted to - I believe that a lot of their carping about the war stems from the fact that they don't have the means and are trying to hide their weakness by making enforced cowardice a virtue. This bit, culled from NRO's The Corner, explains:

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If you put all the E.U. armies together, they total around two million soldiers in uniform - almost the same size as the U.S. armed forces. But there is one huge difference - only about 5 percent of the European troops have the training, weaponry, logistical and intelligence support and airlift capability to fight a modern, hot war outside of Europe. (In the U.S. it is 70 percent in crucial units.) The rest of the European troops - some of whom are unionized! - do not have the training or tools to fight alongside America in a hot war. They might be good for peacekeeping, but not for winning a war against a conventional foe.... The U.S. is building 180 C-17 long-range lift aircraft to transport troops and tanks anywhere in the world, and 112 C-5's, to replace the aging C-141's. The European NATO members have exactly four C-17's.
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Four heavy-lift transport planes - compared to our nearly 300. Bringing the Europeans to battle alongside our magnificently equipped troops would be like bringing knights in shining armour to a tank battle.

Posted by Mark Noonan

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