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Saturday, February 15, 2003
posted by gbarto at 1:53 AM:
Shifting Sands at the U.N.Council Resistance Forcing U.S. to Alter Approach
The administration's mistake is revealed in the first paragraph:
The Bush administration went into yesterday's U.N. Security Council meeting believing it was poised to shift the chamber's attention from diplomacy toward imminent war against Iraq. Instead, it was hit by demands for more time and more talk.The chamber is not paying attention to anything because it's already decided. Nothing short of proof Iraq had a nuke pointed at France could have moved France to pay an iota of attention, because it's got its eyes on oil deals. For all its pompous blather, self-interest has always been where it's at for France, which is why they're always so suspicious of our motives - they can't conceive of anything nobler. A nuke pointed at Germany? One hates to be too cynical or sarcastic, and yet one can't help thinking they'd want to know if it was pointed at a Jewish ghetto or a nice Aryan neighborhood before deciding on a reaction. They certainly don't give a sh-- if Israel's in the crosshairs, even if the Jewish people wound up there only because - history shows - even the Arabs are more civilized toward the Jews than the Germans. You think I'm over the top, but compared to what European newspapers say about us, I'm tame.
Anyway, bottom line, Western Europe would rather see the Middle East nuked and gassed off the face of the earth than give up a chance to reassert itself over the US. We're all New Yorkers now, said Le Monde. But if the Frenchies had been on Flight 93, they'd have been debating the ontological significance of it all as the plane flew into the Capitol.
The question we hoped we'd put to rest with the twentieth century thus returns: How long will it take before the US has to come to the rescue of the doddering old fops of Europe, cleaning up the mess where they've shat upon themselves - and everything else in the vicinity - again?
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