This is getting a little irritating. After this, I'm abandoning this thread. I'm not sure why the posts keep disappearing; it's not happening on any other thread.
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Originally Posted by Bond369
Sience does NOT apply to "foreing affairs".
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I also posted a reply to this. The word "unilateral" comes from uni (meaning "one"), and "lateral" (meaning "side"). So the word means, literally, "one side". But, let's assume you're correct. Then you would agree that if a group of nations got together to accomplish some goal. Then one nation decided to go it alone when the others didn't agree with it, that wouldn't be unilateralism?
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Originally Posted by muspell
Then, when the case is more clear, it might be possible to tell just what is speculation from what is fact, no?
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That's what a reasonable person would do. As I implied, Europe can be really reasonable when they're accused of malfeasance. But that reason is quickly lost when America is involved. (Did I post a link to the Heritage website in regards to the Oil-for-Protection scam? I don't think I did.)
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Originally Posted by marlin
Out of practical considerations to evaluate facts i first evaluate the source, it is quicker.
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Nothing wrong with that. But you still consider and evaluate the facts, right? Or do you just dismiss them as you did here?
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Otherwise i might be flying to Brazil, in order to check if the treasure of the Amazons is really buried there as it says in my issue of Donald Duck magazine.
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Now, that was funny.
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...leaving reader with the suggestion that all 35 were of similar magnitude.
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Not this reader. And the author's clear point is not the magnitude of the French invasions, but the sheer quantity of times France involves itself militarily in other countries (notably African).
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The US acts like they have just invented colonialism.
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Can you point to one country we've colonized, please?