Ted Re..Comparatively speaking, it is more than either Germany or France are giving.
And who's fault is that?
Germany and France aren't contributing their share, even in Afghanistan.
What is so dumb. Did Bill get un approval or not.
Yup!
AFAIK Bill had Nato approval but not UN approval.
Did FDR get UN or League of Nations support before WWII.
Yup!
Wrong again, your not he sharpest knife in the drawer tonight. FDR did not get UN or league of nations approval before he declared war on Germany.
Soooo...do we now compare Bush to OBL? The US to a terrorist organization?
Now why would you want to compare the Us to OBL just because OBL didn't even try to get un approval. No wonder people question your patriotism. In fact, of all of the wars since the Un inception, the un gave its approval, probably 2 or 3 times. When has it ever been the standard. ONly because you say so.
What wars are those?
WWI. WWI , Gulf, Afghansitan, Israel. N Korea. Vietnam was started by France, then dropped in our lap. Even in Bosnia, the US did the major work, and our European allies contributed peanuts.
Dump Israel? In terms of giving it its unilateral support re its conflict with Palestine, Europe has been moving away from Europe in the past ten years while the US has moved closer. Frankly, after a review of the facts, I think they are doing the honorable thing.....oil or no oil.
don't kid yourself, in Israels case it is the oil. However, Israel was created because of Europes racism, and when they couldn't deal with it, especially Germany, was dumped on us in 45. Israel was started by Britian, France and Germany, and they should have seen it through completion. But no, they dump the Jews in Palestine and bug out, leaving the US to keep Israel alive. Imagine if your parents had done that to you when you were 1 yr old.
Germany has a lot of contracts for technical and some oil field equipment. Primarily though, Schroeder was inflaming the population against the war to win the elections Sunday. Too bad it failed, and Schroeder lost big time. ONce again a German leader is using another nationality, or nation as a scapegoat for its problems. Germany has stagnated badly the last several yrs, and it has been America's fault, because we are to cruel to our poor, or our unions aren't strong enough, or we didn't sign Kyoto. Just like HItler blamed the treaty of WWI for Germanys problems, and then later it was the Jews. Whatever. Never look a problem in the face, and deal with it, blame someone else is their motto. |
