WHO CARES WHAT EUROPEANS THINK?

Jewish World Review ^ | 3/4/02 | Charles Krauthammer

[Elkiejg]

Absolutely BILLIANT!!

[Byron_the_Aussie]

Puh-leez.

Z-grade xenophobic propaganda, designed to whip up any crowd of morons silly enough to believe it. Hey Krauthammer, have you tried out for The Jerry Springer Show yet?

"Jer-RY!"

"Jer-RY!"

[billorites]

"They deem it a breach of manners to call evil by its name. They prefer accommodating to it. They have lots of practice..."

Ouch!

[cricket]

"Absolutely BILLIANT!!"

Thanks for posting this - had read it and did not have time to 'share' it. Krauthammer is not afraid to step to the plate and call it like it is. . .and he does so with such astute analysis. . .

A 'brilliant bump'. . .

[cricket]

"Jer-RY!" ; Jer-RY!"

You ARE kidding right?

. . .or perhaps you just have 'been there' a little too often. . .

[alpowolf]

Well, we saw what happened when we let them run the world. Do World War I and World War II ring a bell?

There are times when a nation--any nation--has to act in its own best interests. There have been times I thought the U.S. was wrong, for the same reason: our foreign policy mandarins trying to push other nations into doing things which are wrong for them. It's wrong when our State Dept does it, and it's wrong when their Foreign Ministries do it, too.

[Byron_the_Aussie]

...Krauthammer is not afraid to step to the plate and call it like it is...

Not afraid to play on any prejudice for a headline, is more like it.

[BlackElk]

We will try not to imagine that Australia has degenerated to the point where you might be representative. When these looney tunes have already killed several thousands of our people in New York and at the Pentagon, few of us are of a mood to listen to knuckle-draggers posing as "advanced thinkers" who think that the anti-war fervor and antics of their mis-spent youth is still de riguer.

Whether you are here or in Australia or wherever, you are cordially invited to Eastern Afghanistan to be a recipient of the latest rolling thunder of our magnificent museum piece B-52's. Still doing freedom's work after all these years!

One major point of Krauthammer's piece is that we do not need Europe's opinion. How on earth can that be wrong? We started making a serious mistake in Europe in World War II when we submitted to the silly notion of war by committee. Our first cold war resulted from the fact that we did not take Patton's suggestion and finish off the Soviets while we had the military power in place to do it. We do a lot better when we decide for ourselves.

[lavaroise]

American primitivism. I do not think that is the problem. It is clean talk vs. French purfumed talk that still cannot hide the stench of French fascism and Nazi/terrorist collaboration.

[Byron_the_Aussie]

..well, we saw what happened when we let them run the world. Do World War I and World War II ring a bell?...

You bet they do. But can you hear it ringing?

Larry Suid: The Japanese had invaded Manchuria in 1931, and we had protested. They started to be successful in China, and negotiations did not stop the advance. Ultimately, President Roosevelt embargoed the oil and iron. That left the Japanese feeling very threatened. They figured that by attacking, we would not have the backbone to respond and would instead negotiate and remove the embargo.

http://www.cnn.com/COMMUNITY/transcripts/2001/05/25/suid/

[BlackElk]

You are pretty good at dishing out the insults, but not one line yet of substantive criticism. Whatever prejudice can this be to which you refer? It is not prejudice to note that the spineless, sniveling, whining, socialism-loving leaders of Europe's Third Way Left, abhorring the death penalty, agonizing for months over any military response, nervous nellying over the fact that the US wants to respond militarily rather than joining a debating society are worthless.

Since these nations regard capital punishment as barbaric, I take it that, if American troops witness European troops about to capture Osama bin Laden and thus take him out of danger of execution, they will understand when we shoot their troops to take Osama into custody, won't they? What do you think?

[Elkiejg]

If you are really Australian, I can't take your comments too seriously since your country was dumb enough to pay Clinton 3 million dollars for 1 speech (full of lies and self promotion).

[Republic]

We will worry about what the Europeans' think when each of their beloved homelands have been hit by commercial airliners, loaded with innocents, driven into their memorials, skyscapers, cities, countryside, defense buildings, etc. Nothing like experience to sharpen the knife. And nothing like inexperience when it comes to casting misguided and irrelevant judgements.

[Byron_the_Aussie]

Elk, Krauthammer is a propagandist doing his part to keep the American public in a constant state of fear and rage ahead of the planned attack on Iraq. This piece is typical of a rash of 'everyone else is too weak so we'll go it alone!' pieces that have been planted in the media over the last couple of weeks. I don't think it's a good idea for the US to become internationally isolated over a country so irrelevant as Iraq.

[wheezer]

I can't take your comments too seriously since your country was dumb enough to pay Clinton 3 million dollars for 1 speech (full of lies and self promotion).

By extension of your sound point, does that say about the quality of collective intellect of our nation, which elected him twice as President?

;o)

[Byron_the_Aussie]

..what do you think?...

I think everyone ought to calm down and weigh this Axis attack plan with a cool head. There has been no link shown between 911 and any of the 'Axis' countries. None. So what are the planned attacks intended to achieve? Do the risks, which (IMHO) in the case of North Korea may well lead to a very difficult confrontation with China, outweigh the positives? I don't want to offend any of my (fast-disappearing!) Freeper friends, but what I really believe is that the escape of Bin Laden means that there's been no closure of 911 for America, and its people and leaders are in the mood to lash out.

[B.O. Plenty]

Too-shay, my man....

It's Time to Part Company

[wheezer]

There has been no link shown between 911 and any of the 'Axis' countries.

Actually of the three...the most likely one with linkage would be Iran.

[rdb3]

Krauthammer is right on the money. What's your specific beef with what he said?

[cricket]

"Not afraid to play on any prejudice for a headline, is more like it. . ."

. . .guess my second point re your comment was closer to the truth - you have been there!

Krauthammer writes a brilliant analysis and like any good Liberal you respond throwing out the 'feeling' words (ie 'codewords')that Libs love - good words but made 'z-grade' because Libs use them 'thought-LESS-ly. . .hoping they will get the job done without the support of honest, intelligent criticism; somethings Libs can seldom come up with. . .

You made the three-word average of Lib favorites; xeno-phobic, prejudice, and one more universal - morons. . .for your responses. . . Not bad, but for a Liberal, expect to see more from the 'A' list. . .

When intelligent, or even honest criticism fails - Libs let the words do the talking. .