Re: Bush's haphazard foreign policy is forcing the EU to militarize. Eventually, even the Polands will not have to kowtow.
But "militarize" for what purpose? Against which enemies? You Yanks are obsessed with the military, guns, missiles, global threats, imminent warfare and whatnot... You've got such a bunker mentality... Look at the map and at Europe's surroundings in particular --do you see any powerful, high-tech threat developing?
South of Europe, there's but a bunch of impoverished, backward countries that rely on EU technology to develop themselves: Morocco, Tunisia, Algeria, Lybia, and Egypt... The ultimate goal of these countries is not to nuke Europe but to access its resources --its markets, be it the (EU) job market to take the slack out of their excess workforce or the (EU) consumer market as an outlet for their exports.
East of Europe, there's Turkey --another Muslim country that wants to join the EU, not to fight it, there's Israel whose Judeofascist leaders might one day ponder the idea of nuking some EU cities, and further to the East lies the wilderness of Central Asia... That's basically the current "security picture" of Europe.
Of course, there are some genuine terrorist threats --those are to be dealt with by intelligence and police apparatuses, not aircraft carriers, gunships and cruise missiles...
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