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Politics : Dutch Central Bank Sale Announcement Imminent?
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To: GUSTAVE JAEGER who wrote (23698)10/28/2005 6:02:51 PM
From: sea_urchin  Read Replies (2) of 81092
 
Gus > As for France fearing her turn will come later, what are you talking about?

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>>At stake are not just the claims to future oil royalties in a post-Saddam Hussein Iraq, but the very shape of world order: whether it will be fashioned entirely by the US - the "new Rome" - in its imperial overreach, or by the rule of law and the UN charter with the support of European powers, China, Russia and sections of the Muslim world.

The language used by detractors is reminiscent of the harsh conflicts in the Cold War between ideological adversaries in Washington and Moscow. This time, US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld has likened Germany to US arch-enemy Cuba, while there have been calls in the mainstream US media to strip France of its veto in the UN Security Council and denunciations of European "ingratitude" in the US.

Even NATO is no longer the US handmaiden it was presumed to be in a world where what Washington said, usually goes. By delaying military aid to NATO member Turkey, the European anti-war troika of Germany, France and Belgium punctured the balloon of a monolithic West that was flying high after September 11. <<

You'll no doubt remember when W said that nations were either for the US or against it.
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