Terry >Since they want more gravy, they want to maintain the status quo!
Without doubt. In my opinion, this stand-off is not just about Iraq but is, in fact, a much bigger challenge by Europe and its allies.
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>>>From earliest times, European history is full of alliances of some states against others. Germany and Russia divided Poland between them. France and Russia allied themselves several times to contain Germany . Napoleon tried to unite Europe and did not succeed. The Texan cowboy is succeeding where the Corsican emperor has failed.
Bush has invented the childish term “Axis of Evil” to group together Iraq , Iran and North Korea . That’s nonsense. But in the meantime a French-German-Russian axis has come into being and is facing the United States.
(The term “axis” to design a coalition of states was also invented at the time of Hitler. The original axis of evil included Germany , Italy and Japan . When using this term, Bush intended to recall that memory.)
It is too early to say if this new axis will hold on and if it will be strong enough to face the enormous might of the United States . But even if it will be broken this time, its very birth is a harbinger of things to come. <<<
>Sometimes war is the only answer
I'm not sure that the American people are actually ready for a real war and/or are prepared to die for GWB? As I see it, the war talk we have heard was simply the posturing of a bunch of opportunists who believe that Iraq would be a walk-over and that they will soon be swimming in free Iraqi oil?
However, they had no idea that there would be such massive world-wide opposition to their plans. As things stand now, in my opinion, either the US has to take-on Iraq on its own (with Israel, of course) or withdraw and try to save face. Either circumstance is problematic and will require the greatest amount of statesmanship. I don't believe that GWB can be sleeping well at night especially considering that he, with his administration, put the US into this predicament.
When I see what is happening I think about an African nature movie I once saw on TV about how a pack of wild dogs can hunt and bring down a lion. Sure, some of the dogs were killed, others were seriously injured, but eventually they kill the lion. |
