Originally posted by GRUNHERZ
Oh yes new role. Sure the euros have been participants and even leaders in minior UN or NATO crisis situatuions but when it really came to serious stuff the USA, naturally as western superpower lead the way. In the new world where the EU is trying it as a new independant force how will your people adjust? Who will you blame for the inevitable failures? Or the difficulties? No need to take insult but europe has had the comfort of blaming the usa for every bad thing, what will yiou do when u are in cahrge of something serious - turn on each other?
After the bombings 911 the whole world was behind you. My goverment even went against our own constitution, to back you up.
Kadaffi and Saddam even sent their regards to you, condemning the attack. What more could you have asked for? (We sent troops to Afghanistan and as I know they are still there).
Then, the Iraq issue came up and you got a little to greedy......
To use all this support to make something most of the world didīnt agree with you on.
You tried to bribe your way thru SC. used false papers from Nigeria....to prove your case was valid.
Bush wanted to be a man of action, to get his next turn as well, in the white house. To make a name in the history books: And he sure has done it, maybe not a very honourble place, as he will be put in the "bad guys" section, along with Stalin, Hitler, De clerk, Pinochet, Franco, Ho Chi Min......(list is long, but I think he will be put fairly high in that list)
And, you guys have to defend your votes to your children, just like the Germans had to do: "We really didīnt know better"