Ted Re... I don't think Europe was necessarily looking to "brandish its power"; however, a militaristic, aggressive US may force into rethinking its position and where it wants to go from here.
Isn't that really what the outcry over Kyoto is. A realization that the US wasn't going to cut back their economy, under the guise of global warming, and that the EU would have to find a different way to throttle the US so they can compete.
What part of "Germany and France are two of our biggest trading partners and a slowdown in our economy means a slowdown in theirs'" do you not get.......or are you suggesting the two nations are self destructive?
The liberals realized their economies couldn't compete, and they were going the route of the dodo bird, if they couldn't contain the US.
Well, you have all explained in a nutshell......far leave to me to argue with you.
Militaries are aggressive, that is life. Businesses are aggressive, that is life. While the EU may throttle the US in aggression in intervention, their real goal, to save their liberal agendas, is probably doomed as their real competition is China, India, etc. The US in the eighties took the measures it took to beat back the competition from Japan, and became stronger because of it. Europe has to do the same.
That's it.....might makes right; load those damn torpedoes; lets blow our former allies to smithereens.........they weren't worth all the hassles.
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