Originally posted by GRUNHERZ
I agree with everyting you said here. But seeing as how things went down regarding Iraq and all the shallow moralizing of euro leaders and arrogant protests aginst the cowboy USA I thought it appropriate to point out the fact that European people dont have clean hands either. Because cetainly that was the image they were trying to pass in criticizing the US "warmongering" in Iraq.
Especially whn they said thing invoking Europes old wisdom or such nonsense - I asked whewre that old wisdom was during ww2 or ww1, or colinal wars or in the yugo civil war, or the holocaust or communism.
So in fact we agree - nobody's hands are clean.
Now you start talking.
SO you are bashing on to the Euros because we didnt support The attack on IRAQ?
Shallow moralizing and arrogant protests?
Looking on to how the things are developing in the Iraq and the lack of the WMD´s so on, so on, it does´nt seam like the protests where that arrogant.
Even if the people in the USA belive that thier leaders cant do anything wrong, this is way diffrent in country´s like France, Greece and Germany.
To join in a unlegimate attack on a already beaten up country, just because "big daddy" say they got WMD´s, but no proof, would be political suicide.
The political turbelance in Europe would have been enourmus right now and maybe riots, fall of goverments, etc, etc.
Nato, is still alive, disturbed: yes, but still breathing. But it is dying and the last relic of the cold war is soon gone.
After the fall of the Soviet state and the Warzawa-pact, it is useless to keep it alive. The Cold war is old and soon only a couple of lines in the history books.
