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Oh, the world is in a snit. European elites complain that we're arrogant bullies. The Third World whines about so-called American imperialism. Our Canadian and Mexican neighbor disapprove of our "bellicose" foreign policy. (While all of them stick their hands out, demanding American dollars.) " London Mayor Ken Livingstone said of America: "This really is a completely insupportable government and I look forward to it being overthrown as much as I looked forward to Saddam Hussein being overthrown." French politician Jean-Pierre Chevenement complained that the greatest problem was not "so much Iraq as American unilaterism" This kind of snooty Ignorance virtually defines world opinion these days. Who cares? This is precisely my point. One of the biggest differences between liberals and conservatives is that liberals do care what the rest of the world thinks. In fact, they care what Euro-intellectuals think infinitely more than they care what you think. That was the total motivation behind Sen. Daschle's nutball outburst on the eve of war: "I'm saddened, saddened that this President failed so miserably at diplomacy that we're now forced to war, saddened that we have to give up one life because this President couldn't create the kind of diplomatic effort that was so critical for our country." To Daschle, failure is not being in bed with the French. Two weeks later, Ohio congressman and Democrat presidential wannabe Dennis Kucinich stormed to the House floor "Stop the war now... With this war, we have squandered the sympathy of the world. We have brought upon this nation the anger of the world." Oh, woe is us. Liberals can't imagine that world opinion might possibly be A) grossly wrong, B) grossly corrupt, or C) grossly irrelevant. Thankfully, liberals aren't running the show. When Secretary of State Colin Powell was asked on a talk show if there would be consequences to France for opposing the war, he had a succinct reply "Yes." And not only France. With little fanfare, the Pentagon announced on May 1 that the Army's 17,000 member 1st Armored Division, which had been deployed to Iraq from German bases would not be returning. A shocked Berlin learned that new bases would be set up in Eastern Europe Hungary, Poland, Romania, and Bulgaria. Even more reshuffling of the 112,000 American troops based in Europe (80 percent in Germany) was still to be announced. Payback!!! All I can say is, it's about time. In addition to its overt obstruction at the U.N. before the war, France apparently gave Iraq detailed information,classified conversatons with U.S. officials. The [London] Times uncovered documents revealing that "Paris shared with Baghdad the contents of private transalantic meetings, including conversations between Jacques Chirac and President Bush. This information kept Saddam abreast of every development in American planning and may have helped him to prepare for war. As if that wasnt enough, after the war the French government may have helped Iraqi officials escape to Europe, by secretly giving them passports in Syria. The Bush Administration is not turning the other cheek. Thank God! Donald Rumsfeld's Special Assistant for Europe, Evan Galbraith, warned: "The consequences of this rupture are going to be horrendous to French trade and business, from tourism to investment in the country, to the receptivity in Washington to France expanding its industrial interests in the U.S." One White House official told a French official, "I have instructions to tell you our relations have been degraded." In diplomatic circles, them's fighting words. When Agence France-Presse asked an unnamed senior American official to point to retaliatory measures to be taken against France, he replied "Look at how we handle some issues at NATO." One strategy might be to ditch the current main governing body, the North Atlantic Council, in favor of the Defense Planning Committee, from which France resigned in 1966. This was the olution we came up with last February when France refused, along with Germany and Belgium, to agree to a U.S. request to protect Turkey in case of war. However it's done,. France's days of NATO dominance are over. The old NATO is being supplanted by a new NATO: the "coalition the willing" Ultimately, the British, Italians, Spanish, Danish, and Eastern Europeans will gain prominance. To that end our Senate approved the admission of seven pro American countries Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Slovenia, Slovakia, Bulgaria and Romania. This, of course, dilutes France's influence. pparently France and her fellow weasel countries have another idea In an April summit the duplicitous "gang of four" France, Germany, Belgium and Luxembourg - began trying to set up a "mini-NATO" of their own. Their plans for an EU defense initiative included a proposal for a separate military headquarters. Guffaws broke out, reported The Economist, when the four leaders told the media that the new military initiative "would draw on Belgiums commandos and Luxembourg's reconnaissances forces. LMAO!! Yes, my friends, this bunch truly believes that they are a force to be reckoned with, a force to balance and counter the power of the United States of America. Demonstrating precisely why only American liberals take them seriously. | ||||||||||||
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