Posted on 11/07/2006 12:10:58 AM PST by Republicain
BERLIN: : Kurt Beck, leader of the Social Democrats, called Monday for a European army with a single command, the first time a German political party has proposed such a structure. If adopted, it could lead to the European Union pursuing a security and defense policy independent of NATO.
The proposal was immediately rejected by President Lech Kaczynski of Poland, who said in Vilnius on Monday that the EU should build an army of 100,000 that would remain linked to NATO. Alliance officials said NATO supported the EU playing a greater security and defense role.
In his first major foreign policy speech since becoming leader of a party that is joined in coalition with Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservative bloc, Beck said Europe should become a "global peace power" with its own military command and goals.
(Excerpt) Read more at iht.com ...
The EUSSR: coming soon.
http://www.brusselsjournal.com/node/865
Hmm......
Do you think that they can agree what colour to make the uniforms?
I have my doubts.
Good link. Will read later.
"Beck said Europe should become a "global peace power" with its own military command and goals."
The European Army, fighting wars by delivering flowers... at no charge!
So the German want to challenge us again?
They just want to march in the shade of the Champs d'Elise again...
What would a European Army fight against?
Uhhh. Where does that leave NATO and the UN?
There appears to be something missing from this story. It seems as if there is some engine, some behind the scenes unnamed force trying to drive an impenetrable wedge between Poland and Germany. Now who would want increased tension between Poland and Germany?
Just hard to figure out... who or what entity would gain from such animosity between Poland and Germany.
If so, they will only do so with muslim permission.
"Do you think that they can agree what colour to make the uniforms?"
Same color as their flags, white.....
"What would a European Army fight against?"
Us.
Us.
Yes, indirectly. A necessary task.
wow dead spot on right
In Europe where a majority of the people think that the greatest threat to world peace is not Iran but the United States of America, the left is trying to undo America as a superpower. If the left can deconstruct NATO, it can disarm America of one of its apparatus by which it wields power. The left often ask an incremental steps and this is the first baby step in that direction. Look for France to join in with this proposition..
It is chilling to consider that these leftists in Germany and elsewhere in Europe would actively undermine NATO, and American power as expressed through NATO, in the face of Islamic Jihad. Why would they disarm their country and weaken their staunchest ally in the face of mortal danger?
The left has often operated in this fashion, cutting deals with the enemy in time of war to obtain power. Witness Lenin's peace with Germany in 1917, and Mao Tse-tung's treachery with the Japanese during their occupation of China. The Ribbentrop-Molotov pact, wherein Stalin was seduced by his own greed and which precipitated World War II, is of a similar character..
I agree with your quip to the effect that the European army would be feckless but perhaps not forever. The left also has a history of fielding very effective armed forces, witness the Russians in World War II, the North Vietnamese, the Chinese in Korea, and various guerrilla operations, which often obtain their victories, or lease their stalemates, through a ruthless disregard for their own casualties. These kinds of forces, however, are constructed by the left after they have obtained exclusive power..
I see the left as much more dangerous and treacherous than a bunch of muddleheaded, kumbaya- singing, peace- at --any- pricers. I see them as very dedicated but patient neocommunists who wish to obtain universal power in the world. To attain that goal that must destroy America's superpower status and in so doing they are quite willing to court destruction at the hands of Islamo fascism.
Leave it to a German to come up with something like this...just like always, when everything else fails, the Euroweenians always go back to their roots.
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