Sunday, October 10, 2004
Europe to Kerry: 'Dream On'
From the International Herald Tribune:
No. And there were never going to be. That was NEVER realistic. We couldn't even get Germany on board in a meaningful way for the First Gulf War, which did have UN backing.
It's much appreciated and helpful presence in Afghanistan notwithstanding, Germany simply has no appetite for foreign adventures. Which is as it should be.
More, from a South German newspaper:
No, there won't. Kerry is deluding himself if he thinks there's going to be a Deus Ex Machina of altruistic Europeans and other nations coming to bail us out, even as he or his campaign 1.) screeches about what an awful situation it is, 2.) Denounces the Prime Minister of Iraq--on whose percieved legitimacy we rely--as a Bush "puppet," 3.) Goes on and on about how Iraq was 'the wrong war in the wrong place at the wrong time, 4.) Argues--as his sister (and member of his campaign staff) did--that standing with the United States makes their citizenry less safe, and 5.) Badmouths our coalition partners, calling them "a coalition of the coerced and the bribed" (and while so doing, undermines their chances for reelection.)
If I were a European leader, I wouldn't touch that with a three meter pole.
More:
No.
He doesn't deserve one.
Splash, out
Jason
Early in September, a German official, asked privately by a visitor if Kerry's claim of good relations with Europe could get him a German military presence in Iraq, stifled a guffaw; an explicit response, but wordless, and difficult to transcribe.
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But last week, just after Kerry's major speech on the war in which he insisted that the United States "must make Iraq the world's responsibility" and that others "should share the burden," Schröder's sense of courtesy collided with reality and he drove a spike into the notion. He told reporters, "We won't send any German soldiers to Iraq, and that's where it's going to remain."
No. And there were never going to be. That was NEVER realistic. We couldn't even get Germany on board in a meaningful way for the First Gulf War, which did have UN backing.
It's much appreciated and helpful presence in Afghanistan notwithstanding, Germany simply has no appetite for foreign adventures. Which is as it should be.
More, from a South German newspaper:
As for the Democrat, Süddeutsche said Kerry "is suggesting that he can produce a little miracle and seduce America's battered friends into high-yield performances along the lines of Washington's wishes." For all of Kerry's opportunity to create a foreign policy with greater credibility and legitimacy, that was not realistic, it said. Schröder couldn't send Bundeswehr troops to Iraq, and there would be "no morning-after special gift for a President Kerry."
No, there won't. Kerry is deluding himself if he thinks there's going to be a Deus Ex Machina of altruistic Europeans and other nations coming to bail us out, even as he or his campaign 1.) screeches about what an awful situation it is, 2.) Denounces the Prime Minister of Iraq--on whose percieved legitimacy we rely--as a Bush "puppet," 3.) Goes on and on about how Iraq was 'the wrong war in the wrong place at the wrong time, 4.) Argues--as his sister (and member of his campaign staff) did--that standing with the United States makes their citizenry less safe, and 5.) Badmouths our coalition partners, calling them "a coalition of the coerced and the bribed" (and while so doing, undermines their chances for reelection.)
If I were a European leader, I wouldn't touch that with a three meter pole.
More:
As for the Democrat, Süddeutsche said Kerry "is suggesting that he can produce a little miracle and seduce America's battered friends into high-yield performances along the lines of Washington's wishes." For all of Kerry's opportunity to create a foreign policy with greater credibility and legitimacy, that was not realistic, it said. Schröder couldn't send Bundeswehr troops to Iraq, and there would be "no morning-after special gift for a President Kerry."
No.
He doesn't deserve one.
Splash, out
Jason
Comments:
I haven't been around latey, sorry.
But note Kerry never actually says what countries he would get support from. Maybe he actually means Tierra del Fuego, Easter Island, Surinam... Or farther: Beta Centauri, Fomalhaut, Sirius...
But note Kerry never actually says what countries he would get support from. Maybe he actually means Tierra del Fuego, Easter Island, Surinam... Or farther: Beta Centauri, Fomalhaut, Sirius...
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