Posted on 03/17/2006 3:00:35 PM PST by dr_who_2
Based on whose authority? Certainly not the hand wringing of Euro-weenies. Could happen if enough jellyfish Pubs jump on some anti-military, anti-American security, terrorist sympathizer RAT legislation I suppose.
Otherwise a good piece from VDH.
I have always wondered if the French who criticize Guantanamo Bay or Abu Ghraib, for that matter, recall the little matter of the Algerian civil war during which their own methods for extracting information were not always exemplars of gentleness
Now THAT'S a very good question.
There are two reasons the Eurotrash elites get by with what they do:
1. Their left wing mediots and ours protect them and try to destroy any self protection we attempt.
2. The immediate reflex to support the Eurotrash in America by liberal and so called conservative Americans whenever an article like this comes out. Before the day is over and this thread grows cold, so called conservatives will be supporting the Eurotrash and ripping GW for wanting to protect Americans.
"Everbody's favorite arch-neocon hits the ball out of the park."
Actually, Dr Hanson is a Registered Democrat, and that probably would eliminate him from being a neo con.
http://victorhanson.com/articles/dowd082705.html
August 28, 2005
America’s Historian in Chief
by Alan W. Dowd
American Legion Magazine
"This interview with Victor Davis Hanson by Alan Dowd of the Sagamore Institute for Policy Research was conducted on April 5, 2005 in Indianapolis, Indiana, and published in the September 2005 issue of the American Legion.
Victor Davis Hanson emerged from the relative obscurity of his academic post at Fresno State University on September 11, 2001, to become something akin to America’s “Historian-in-Chief.” Spurred by a legion of eager editors, Hanson has translated his expertise in classical military history to the war on terror. The result is some 300 essays (and counting) and a literal army of devotees. He notes with pride that he receives 10 to 20 supportive emails each week from U.S. troops in Iraq and Afghanistan."
"His primary platform for explaining this first war of the 21st century has been a decidedly modern mode of communication — the World Wide Web. With the dependability of Old Faithful, Hanson’s weekly commentaries have poured forth from the web-based daily of National Review, one of the forbears of the modern conservative movement. But Hanson reminds those who dismiss him as a Republican shill that he’s a registered Democrat."
You did not answer the question.
What is the American component of this Court?
That USA with UK were pushing for establishment of the Tribunal in UN, provided funding and followed up with diplomatic support.
UN by itself would not do it (out of five permanent members of Security Council, Russia and China were not enthusiastic and France was wavering, it was US and UK leading the charge). EU was divided (Greece, sometimes France tended to be pro-Serb and other members had doubts).
And the last but not the least the most robust part of NATO military efforts was US.
Grampa,
Wouldn't that make him precisely a neo con?
It has been my understanding that one must first have been a democrat to have become a newly minted (neo) conservative: examples of founding members of the movement are John Podheretz and Irvig Kristol. Later, famous neos are Richard Pearl (Perle?) and Paul Wolfowitz.
Not if he still claims to be a Democrat.
As far as the US being the sine quo non of NATO, well, that is nothing new at all.
Difficult to see how he could be a conservative at all and register as a Democrat in California of all places.
Sorta off topic, but I seem to recall that Milosivic resisted being brought to the Hague, and was only conveyed there after Bush was inaugurated? For some reason in my mind, I remember thinking what did Bush have to do with it. Am I wrong?
truth bump
Why do you hate Bush?
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