Ted, De Genova is a typical academician, a purist, a theoretician. He wants the US to be that pure virgin I mentioned above and his research says otherwise.
Once again, you're trying to whitewash what he is saying. I don't buy the notion that he has a "pure virgin" standard, because the very people he is praising (North Vietnam, Somalian warlords, Saddam) are far from being "virgins" themselves.
Let me ask you a question.......if you were watching the American war for independence simply as an observer who's side would you have been on?
You are right, though, that he is a purist when it comes to his political theories. And they all seem to coincide with Marxism, especially when it comes to the struggle of the proletariat.
I guess it all goes back to Marx! <g>
The EU was perceived as a superpower in economic trading terms, not militarily. It was intended to balance out the Japanese and the American successes in economics. After the Iraq war, however, Europeans are rethinking that thesis and considering extending it militarily. I know I would.
So you don't believe this is a new form of European nationalism, one borne out of necessity?
It could develop that way at least for while. However what I saw it as initially was the first, albeit small, step towards world gov't.
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