Ted Re..Sorry, dude, these are not your children, they are countries and if anyone has acted immaturely its Mr. Rumsfield and in the past week, Mr. Bush.
If that was true, then why did Germany say last night that they were going to support Turkey by sending in missiles, which their NATO negotiators blocked earlier in the day. Is that your version of sanity. Do mature adults really do that?
No, you grow up.
I can assure you that I am way too old for that. In fact, I am at the point, one normally starts to grow down in size. So, no matter how much improvement you might hope for, this is as mature as it gets on my part. What about you?
they have more at risk than we do and they are entitled to an opinion.
Nobody said they didn't. However if it is their opinion to abrogate the terms of the NATO treaty, then they should be well aware that opinions sometimes have unintended consequences. It is probably too late for Germany's mea culpas to stop all of the consequences. We will see. Worse, Schroeder and Chirac put the onus on themselves by going too far, and now having to back down. Before it was GW who was playing fast and loose, well look who is doing it now, and who had to eat crow.
Even the American people are becoming more in sync with the attitudes of the Europeans.
I agree, yesterday there was a lot of talk in congress about changing our troop allocations in Nato. Most people agree that the europeans have the right to defend themselves, and pay for it. Maybe now they will realize what it costs.
Not to worry....its looking less and less like they will be on our team due to the continuing insolent behavior of Mr. Bush and Mr. Rumsfield
Good for Mr GW and Rumsfeld getting the ingrates off of the dole.
and you think the Europeans are acting like children. Right!
In the NATO case, absolutely. Rummy mentioned that he was considering reducing troops in Germany, and here they are saying they put the missiles in the mail yesterday already. They folded like a cheap suit. And you call that mature in a time of war. |
