[MNJohnnie]

The Western alliance is fracturing.

France last year sent its diplomats abroad to cajole non-NATO governments to vote against the US resolution in the UN Security Council to depose Saddam Hussein's regime by force. Germany and Belgium poodled along for the ride. Turkey, at the last minute, denied the US the use of bases on its soil to open a northern front against the Iraqi Republican Guard. Meanwhile, Spain swept to power a Socialist government that announced a withdrawal of its troops from Iraq before it even took power.

What this writer seems to miss is that it never really was an alliance. Europe hid behind our sheild to keep Russia from gobbling them up but will not back us when were are attacked.

[clee1]

Good riddance to bad rubbish.

Our ancestors ran from Europe to avoid their elitist bullshite, and our Forefathers carefully crafted a Nation that avoided the "problems" attendant in European society.

I, for one, give less than a flying freak what Europe has to say.