Re: The European Union (EU) also proved disappointing during the year, according to Roth, who noted that the EU "might have filled the gap" created by Washington's hypocrisy, "but instead it continued to punch well below its weight, due in part to institutional disarray and in part to competing...
...WORLDVIEWS." The Iraq war was a case in point: of all the 15 EU members (as of March 2003), only France and Germany joined by their diplomatic "yes men", Belgium and Luxembourg, felt bold enough to oppose the war. France, in particular, wisely anticipated the Abu Ghraib scandals such a war portended and their disastrous impact they would deal to the relationship between native Europeans and Muslim immigrants....
Re: ...China's rapid growth and exploding appetite for raw materials "led to its bolstering of corrupt and repressive regimes in Africa, Latin America, and Asia, to the disadvantage of the people in those regions," according to the report, which noted that it had thrown "an economic lifeline to such highly abusive governments as Sudan and Zimbabwe".
The Western pot calling the Chinese kettle black! Throughout the Cold War, the US used to bankroll the cruelest regimes worldwide, from Pinochet's Chile to Apartheid South Africa to Iran under the Pahlavi dynasty... Better yet: Nazi Germany was doing business as usual with the US from 1933 on until 1941. |
