On Wed, Feb 05, 2003 at 11:12:33AM +0100, Sonja van Baardwijk-Holten wrote:
> Since EU is more into social goals, it is hard to imagine they'd spent > more on the military unless they were under direct attack. I admit, > that it would be too late to change anything in that eventuallity but > that's the way it is. And that is one of the choices Gautam refers to. Planning ahead to protect yourself is prudent and serious; not doing so is a choice. > LOL.... Well even you have to admit that there is more to foreign > politics then waving a big gun under the nose of countries you don't > agree with. So I feel this is somewhat overstating your point. And you believe Europe has mastered these additional foreign policy techniques? I must have missed how the Europeans negotiated their way out of the recent Serbia situation. And convinced Saddam Hussein to withdraw from Kuwait. And persuaded the Taliban to liberalize their policies and stop supporting Al Qaeda. > And so they do. And so they [mainland European military forces] do....what? Let's see... > Currently (and this is typical of the Netherlands) they establish the > task then they send just enough men and material to accomplish that > particular task. They establish the task and then... > the only thing the lightly armed military could do was retreat. retreat and criticize the US for not fixing the situation yet. > Well they are usefull as to what the EU countries intent them to do. And what do they intend their military forces to do? Perhaps call their enemies names such as... > that is a stupid as well as an ignorant viewpoint. ...before retreating. So now we know the secrets of the mainland European military forces! -- "Erik Reuter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.erikreuter.net/ _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
