Thursday, February 24, 2005

German criticisms

The arrival of President Bush in Europe this week may well bring the demonstrators out on the streets again, to protest about American action in Iraq and inaction over the Kyoto climate treaty. But not all Europeans find fault with the United States. The US is the world's foremost economic and military power. In these times of anti-Americanism this is by way of a love letter to the country where I have lived for a quarter of my life.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/

During a debate Tuesday punctuated with evidence from both antiquity and current events, classicist Victor Davis Hanson mounted a vigorous defense of the war in Iraq, while Dartmouth History Professor Ronald Edsforth countered that all preemptive wars, especially in the case of Iraq, fall outside the “just war tradition.”
http://www.dartreview.com/

But my man in the grey suit is backed up by the greatest power ever seen on the face of the Earth: his identity card carries a menace which every security guard in every godforsaken corner of the globe understands and appreciates. If you are going to be an ally of America, you must let the secret service through roadblocks with whomsoever they choose to travel. And they did. Freedom is on the march.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/

Germany loves to criticize US President George W. Bush's Middle East policies -- just like Germany loved to criticize former President Ronald Reagan. But Reagan, when he demanded that Gorbachev remove the Berlin Wall, turned out to be right. Could history repeat itself?
http://service.spiegel.de/

The alleged head of a notorious gang in Honduras blamed for a massacre of bus passengers before Christmas has been arrested in the US.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/

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