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To: GST who wrote (137706)6/23/2004 5:39:54 PM
From: Neocon  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 281500
 
By your criterion, Europe, at least that part in NATO, is an American colony. Sure doesn't act like a colony, nor do the constitutent states, even with a strong military presence on their soil, and occupation authority for a decade after WWII in Germany and Italy. Why? Because that is not how it is structured. Their governments do not answer to the United States, and NATO operates by consensus. The details tell the tale.......