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the G-man said:
The need of the left to consult with "our allies" on matters of our own security seems to be steeped in some sort of assumption that Europe is intellectually and/or morally superior.

But is it?

A new poll surveyed residents of nine European countries--Austria, Belgium, Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands and Spain--about their attitudes toward Jews. Among the findings:


  • 35% said Jews "should stop playing the victim because of the Holocaust and persecution of 50 years ago."
  • 16.1% said it "would be better if the state of Israel did not exist and the Palestinians got their land back."
  • 40% think Jews have a "particular relationship with money."


And the poll shows that Europeans aren't exactly the experts on world affairs that the liberals want us to think:

    The people polled were asked four questions about the Middle East conflict. Nearly one-third proved clueless. Only 6.2 per cent gave correct answers.


In other words, our friends on the left want us to "seek permission" from a group that, at best, represents a constituency with no moral or intellectual superiority to our own and, at worst, is a bunch of ignorant racists.

Thanks, but no thanks.



Why thank you for the high praise!

Granted, I'm danish and Denmark weren't included in the poll. But still.......

I don´t think that there are lot of Europeans (except the French ) who claims moral superiority against the US. What Europeans are saying is that America certainly doesn't hold it either.

Of course, no country should seek permission to defend itself. What many find wrong with that statement however, is that few people can find any reason why the US. should defend itself against Iraq, there was no immediate threat. Probably never would be by the way it looks, what with Saddam probably not having any WMD.

"The United States will not seek a permission slip to defend itself"

Nor should it! But, there is a problem with that statement. I think one of the other reasons why Iraq was invaded was because Saddam Hussein was a dictator, he didn't think like America. This leaves an open question, who's next?
With the statement Bush made he can justify any invasion on virtually any nation that doesn't think like he does (I know that's an exxageration, but bear with me) saying that it posed a threat to the security of the U.S.A.
Iran, Yemen, Syria, Saudi Arabia, even North Korea.
Those are nations that have a different regime than Democracy. And some way you can argue the case that any non democratic nation poses a threat to a democratic nation, and then justify an attack.
I think that is why many people don't like the Statement Bush made. He may not have that scenario in mind, but he certainly opened the door for it.


China too is not a democratic nation.....



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