Posted on 06/11/2005 10:38:28 PM PDT by quidnunc
Well, we have now heard from all the players in the euro drama. The French are angry with the Brits for cancelling — oops — postponing their referendum on the constitution. It seems that it is not the French non but the British postponement that has put paid to this adventure in superstatism.
The British are divided: some popped the champagne corks and danced on the constitution’s grave, others felt cheated out of their chance to play the role of assassin, still others mourned the death of this latest effort to push the “European project” forward. The Germans refused to hold a referendum but want the Poles to go ahead with one, but the Poles are not certain that is a good idea.
Only America has not been heard from. Washington’s official position is that it is for the Europeans to decide about the structure of Europe. The administration would say that, wouldn’t it? After all, it would be unseemly to express official joy at the discomfort of Jacques Chirac, who has tried to convert the EU into an anti-American power bloc, and Gerhard Schröder, who won an election by heaping scorn on George W Bush.
Unofficially, many in the administration are delighted. Thoughtful officials in the Pentagon have always worried that the European army that Chirac gulled Tony Blair into supporting when the Nice Treaty was signed would rival Nato for resources. More important, the State Department — which Condoleezza Rice is converting from a centre for undermining Bush’s foreign policy into a loyal implementer of that policy — sees this as possibly a historic moment in European history, and an opportunity for American diplomacy.
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(Excerpt) Read more at timesonline.co.uk ...
A funny thing happened on the way to try to gangup on the USA, The people got a chance to vote. And like us or not they did not want to become a puppet.
Soros must be po'd.
" France’s new prime minister, Dominique de Villepin, announced plans to cut unemployment by expanding the number of civil servants employed by state and local government."
The French won't rest until they kill the Euro.
The last think GWB needs to do is express satisfaction! That'd be about the only thing that could resurrect the EU Constitution now....
Opps! I mean thing, not think. GWB should think it all he wants, just don't say it. =)
The return of investment back to the US will help out our economy for another 1 or 2 years (lower interests rates in US and such per article) while Europe hastily tapes the pieces of their shredded EU constitution back together. They will try again, the Socialists and Communists are ever there, awaiting to overwhelm freedom like some sort of fungal growth.
It's just inconceivable that such a fiasco could be orchestrated at such a high level and all at once blown away by the very culprits (france) who attempted to push this massive constitutional fraud on every other European nation.
Just think of the financial problems they've caused alone, before and now in the questionable aftermath. The instability they have created alone is reprehensible.
And finally, I'd submit that many French woman may find Polish plumbers preferable to the shallow end of the gene-pool selection they currently have to choose from. Not that I know, just sayin'... ; )
When your adversary is drowning, throw him an anvil.
I hope the conversion is going well...it is a big step.
Okay. Here it is:
(1) Bush will call for a summit meeting with the leaders of Ireland and the U.K to establish a NAFTA-type arrangement between them and North America.(2) He will call for a similar but seperate summit meeting with Putin et al. for the eventual incorporation of Russia into a similar economic arrangement with the North America, Britain, and Ireland.
(3) He will begin exploring the possibility of similar arrangements with India and China.
(4) The remaining European nations will be informed that applications to join this economic powerhouse will be considered, provided they show dependable evidence of abandoning the suicidal decadence, including Marxism, that has infected them like the Black Plague.
(5) Meanwhile, Britain, Ireland, and North America will procede with prosperity and ascendance into the 21st century, hoping that the rest of the West will someday come to their senses join them.
(6) Jacques Chirac and Gerhard Schroeder will be offered the opportunity to join Jimmy Carter in a revival of Hee Haw, hoping against hope that there's something that they're qualified to do.
(7) Gunnar Berg will be given a can of liniment to help sooth the kicks in the leg that he keeps receiving.
>>More important, the State Department — which Condoleezza Rice is converting from a centre for undermining Bush’s foreign policy into a loyal implementer of that policy
Off topic from the main thrust of this article, it is interesting to see the forthright reporting of the relationship between this Administration and the State Department, from an oft-quoted UK source.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't recall, say, the NY Times, or the Wash Post, saying much of anything so straightforward on this.
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