From: Mike Lorrey (mlorrey@yahoo.com)
Date: Sun Jan 26 2003 - 22:13:29 MST
--- Max M <maxmcorp@worldonline.dk> wrote:
>
> European politics might not be idealisticaly pure, but they do work
> on the real world.
i.e. europeans are cynical opportunists who would sell their grandma
for a eurobuck. Really social, that. I suppose that is why they are
putting their self interest (i.e. selling weapons and investing in
Iraqi oil companies) ahead of world peace.
>
> There is little doubt that a free market can be more efficient. But
> it has yet to be shown that a more free market, and a little more
> money, gives people a significant higher quality of life.
On the contrary, it can be shown that those EU countries which brag a
slightly higher standard of living than the US are uniformly those
which are dependent upon financing their welfare systems with heavy
resource exporting (i.e. north sea oil, money laundering, etc), while
at the same time spending far less on defense than the US does.
>
> And even though the Europeans are not as eager to go to war, we are
> rapidly accepting new countries into the EU. Including many former
> eastern european contries.
What is so interesting is that it is those eastern european nations
which seem to be generally in support of the US stance on Iraq. Poland
and the Czech Republic, specifically, seem highly supportive. Perhaps
it is because they have a far better idea than western europeans do
what it is like living under repressive regiemes.
>
> We might not spend as much money on the military, but we do spend a
> LOT of money integrating former enemies.
>
> Imagine that, a powerfull region achieving peace through trade and
> cooperation.
i.e. trading with the enemy
=====
Mike Lorrey
"Live Free or Die, Death is not the Worst of Evils."
- Gen. John Stark
"Pacifists are Objectively Pro-Fascist." - George Orwell
"Treason doth never Prosper. What is the Reason?
For if it Prosper, none Dare call it Treason..." - Ovid
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