Reply #56: Nearly the first thing the Bushistas did... [View All]

[neweurope]

...was to ensure that they would not be sent to The Hague. We Europeans did not like that very much, and we suspected that there was a reason for that particular move of the US. And, yes, you are right here: The US was and is very much hated for that.

2) It really impresses me that whenever the Bushistas could really do something against Al Quaeda, the declared enemy, they fail to do so. Which has me almost convinced that there is no such thing as Al Quaeda resp. that Al Quaeda is no threat to the US. Of course that thought leads to a great many other thoughts...

3) *coughs politely* foreign aid:

a) How big a percentage of the US-finances go to foreign aid? AND do you really think that sum would otherwise be used to help the POOR US-citizens?

b) The western countries are bound by international treaty to spend a certain percantage on foreign aid. In my opinion that percentage should be much greater than it actually is. Of course, treaties don't seem to mean very much to president Rove... *coughs* Bush.

c) The life style of the Western world can only be upheld by daily exploitation of the Third World. Most of us could never afford a cup of coffee if we had to pay a fair price for it. The finances of Germany are desolate, also. But I do not think that we should take that little foreign aid away from the people that we made poor in the first place. And certainly not as long as there's ample money for christmas trees in white houses and military music...