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Originally Posted by Phunkie
Looking at the subject of this thread and your posts in it, I somehow got the idea that your intention was to show us that Europe can do unilateral decisions too and not only the USA (who has been accused of such things by Europeans). Am I right?
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Now what major unilateral decision might the USA have done in the last few years? It doesn't take an European to come to the conclusion I did.
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Oh, I don't know. Let me think...
Refusing to sign the Kyoto Accord? Terminating the ABM Treaty? Invading Afghanistan? Asking the other members of the UN to mean what they say and say what they mean? Invading Iraq? Sanctions on Iran? N. Korea? (Probably not the 73 other countries the US has unilaterally sanctioned.) Investigation of the Oil-For-Protection scam at the UN?
There seems to be no end to Europe's list of complaints against the US. Why would you settle on just one?
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Or do you think I am just being unintelligent and unreasonable again, as is in my European nature, to come up with this totally absurd comparison?
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Is it in your nature as a European? That's interesting. My first impression was that your governments were acting independently of its citizens. But your question clears up one thing for me: Why is it that so few Europeans care about their own government's unilateral action and malfeasance? Now, I know. Thank you.