Hakan,
I'm not sure about your point on NATO. As I understand it, NATO was set up
during the cold war to stand again the Soviet block. Since the cold war is
over, is it needed? I think the 'Hawks' in the U.S.A. would say that NATO
wasn't very beneficial to the U.S. cause during this last Iraq
Andrew,
I think your assumption is that this photo indicates that the U.S. troops
killed Iraqis who were in the process of surrendering. I obviously don't have
any idea as I wasn't there, BUT the photo alone is not proof of this. It was
widely reported in the 'mainstream press' that Iraqis wer
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> We already have a EU power bloc, from economical and
> sociological point of view. I do not want it to be the
We already have a EU power bloc, from economical and
sociological point of view. I do not want it to be the "other"
either. It should not be one military force, because of the
nature of EU. It should replace NATO as a defence alliance,
but free from US direct influence. It is time to get rid of t
Actually, I'm not too attracted to the idea of a EU power bloc,
or formalised defence apparatus as counter to US power. It just
seems to recreate the 'other' that corporate USA in its various
manifestations needs to justify it own existence. The UN worked
fine; virtually everyone came to realise
Andrew,
I agree.
It seems to me that the biggest challenge for the world is
if it can deal with the Iraq events in an evenhanded way. It
means that the "Coalition of the Barbarians" (referring to
the cultural education that made them protect the oil ministry
instead of the heritage of the worl
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> Bush, Rumsfeld, Powell, Blair and Howard have secured a prominent place
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> the world history,...
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>..It is also a war crime, according to the Geneva convention.
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> Hakan
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I,ve seen a number of photos