Posted on 09/26/2004 9:13:34 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
"Nah, make the Australian states and territorities into our 51st through 57th states..."
What we need to do upon disbanding NATO, quitting the UN, and throwing them out of the country, is to form a new alliance. The new alliance will be of freedom loving countries that are also coincidentally English speaking. Let me emphasize that Anglo ethnicity and the English language are not the point: it's the heritage of freedom guaranteed by a constitution and the willingness to fight for it that is important. The USA, Britain, Australia are charter members. And when they have come to their senses, the Canadians and New Zealanders. Later on, any nation that has risen and will adhere to our democratic ideals...likely candidates being Israel, South Africa and India. The idea is not to impose some kind of US backed empire, but to form an alliance that will keep the world safe and free *without* Kofi and the French.
Sorry to interrupt everybody's appreciation of Australia, but the author, Gerard Baker, is British, not Australian. He usually writes for the usually left-of-center Financial Times, and sometimes appears on The McLaughlin Group.
"No wonder the rest of the world wants this man as US president. There would be a vacancy for global leadership if he were to win."
EXACTLY, the rest of the world wants a weakend USA. Sure they will cry when 9/11 happens again, but they take to the streets in protest when we attpempt to stop the next 9/11.
I have heard that the ROK in Vietnam was absolutely ruthless!!!
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