most of you Yanks on here--- You guys can't get unravelled long enough from your flag to see straight ...
rrman,
Yeah, that's what the Brits, and French thought back in 1940 when they were BOTH BEGGING to get the US involved in another one of their European p*ssing contests.
The US culture is traditionally isolationist. We don't want to be involved in overseas adventures like Bosnia, preferring to expect those nations with more at direct risk to assume the responsibility.
For YEARS the US backed off on taking the lead role in resolving the Bosnian issue, allowing the Europeans to bungle it so bad that we had to come in an bomb the Serbs into accepting peace.
The US sees very straight with regard to most of our "allies". They flap their gums and try to jawbone parties into making "nice-nice" with each other. Only when their bungling fails do they start clamoring for the US to let loose the dogs of war and bail out their bacon.
The attitude of most Americans, if you get to the root of it, is that the rest of the world could kiss our collective arse, for all we care. But it's because we live in an intertwined world and economy that the US can't permit itself to bow out expecting leadership to manifest itself from Europe. We recognise that, I think, and that is why we want to get all wars over with as quickly as possible so that we can all return to some semblance of normality as quickly as possible.
I really get a kick out of Blair clamoring for ground troops in Kosovo yet not willing to volunteer to raise a general call up of his forces to back up his words. It's real easy to spend US blood, if you're a European.
That's why I personally don't give a rat's behind why people are fighting or who started it. I want it over with even if we have to knock a few heads and kill a bundle of people to make it happen.
We didn't start the killing. That's been going on for years now. But we'll lead to a solution that will stop it, that I count on.
You, rrman, are a beautiful speciment of a European jawjacker. You B*tch and Moan about all the evil the US perpetrates but aren't nearly a voiciferous in your complainst against those who are deliberately creating mayhem, not reluctantly as is the case with the US.
No one would like to stop the bombing more than the US. But we don't stop for the sake of giving Milo some breathing room. We stop when all objectives that are require to secure a lasting peace and stability have been met.
Regards,
Ron |
