U.S. Backlash to European protests
Dolly Coughlan Jr
<pasdespa...@zeouane.org> writes:
>Subject: Re: U.S. Backlash to European protests
>From: Desmond Coughlan <pasdespa...@zeouane.org>
>Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2003 19:18:56 +0000
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>le Tue, 18 Feb 2003 15:52:08 +0000, dans l'article
><7e1ai-...@zeouane.org>, Desmond Coughlan <pasdespa...@zeouane.org>
>a dit ...
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>>>> France has supplanted the US as a leading nation.
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>>> Not quite yet. It isn't over until it is over.
>
>> I fear you miss the point, Richard. France is currently the world's
>> leader, with the United States left as its 'brawnmeister'. France cannot
>> stop the 'school bully' from invading Iraq, but we can (and have)
>> prevented you from fighting legally.
>
>I remember coming back from my mother-in-law's, sitting in a TGV from Lille
>to Paris on 3 January 2000, reading a copy of _Time_ magazine, with a
>photograph of Albert Einstein on the cover, the 'Person of the Century', as
>_Time_ called him.
>
>Looking forward to the 21st century, _Time_ claimed that it would be
>'America's [sic] Century'.
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>Thinking Americans must be looking back with horror on the huge error that
>was the 2000 presidential election. A president who was given the White
>House by a Supreme Court, and whose feet were hardly under the Oval Office
>desk, when he was alienating half of the world with his unilateral
>revocation of the Kyoto treaty, to satisfy the oil barons who had financed
>his presidential ticket.
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>Then came '9/11' (sic) and a war in Afghanistan marked by horrific
>barbarity involving not only Afghan 'rebels', but CIA agents. Then there
>was the 'American' (sic) immaturity in insisting on immunity for its
>'peacekeepers' to perform gross violations of human rights up to and
>including genocide, without the International Court of Justice being able
>to do anything.
>
>It is impossible to say how the world would have turned out, if the
>rightful winner of the 2000 election, had been in the White House. Would
>'9/11' (sic) still have occurred ? If it was an attack by Al'Queda, then
>probably. If it was 'Operation Northwood' revitalised, then certainly not.
>The current 'anti-American' sentiment felt across the globe, is in fact
>'anti-Bush', so this, and the resentment felt at American hegemony, would
>probably not exist, if a more intelligent, more experienced President had
>been at the controls. 'America' (sic) may take decades to recover from the
>harm inflicted by Bush on the country, and on its relations with its
>allies.
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>One thing is sure: thanks to Bush, the 21st century will be Europe's, not
>'America's' (sic).
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>--
>Desmond Coughlan |desmond @ zeouane . org
>http://www.zeouane.org/
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