10-02-2003, 09:45 AM
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Enemy combatant
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Join Date: Jul 2002
Location: Amsterdam, Old Europe
Posts: 841
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Originally posted by Botnst
For the past 40 years Europe has benefited from the US taxpayers' willingness to maintain a world-class, irresistible military.
Botnst: economics is clearly not your field: who do you think has financed US' gigantic budget deficit (read: US wealth) since 40 years?
This has resulted in a steady decline in European spending and thinking on defense. The EU must change its attitude to defense issues to become a viable, cohesive state.
....you mean like you: 'shock & awe' when countries don't do what you want?
NO THANK YOU
But, would the world be better-off with such an entity? I'm not so sure anymore. The rattle-brain behavior of the French and Germans is not reassuring.
I guess attacking a WMD-ghost is really reassuring...
Ever read Don Quixote?
Give me your 'rattle-brains' anytime.
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