The Current World Lie

[Anonymous]

There is an international sentiment of Anti-Americanism, that quite frankly, I think dwarfs the VERY recent Anti-French sentiment in the United States. Our Anti-French feelings are regarding France's recent actions, not their right to voice their opinion.

France has no other reason to actively lobby against us, than to secure their own positions economically. France has illegally traded with the Iraqis for the past decade. France runs their entire phone system. France has billions of dollars in contracts it stands to lose if Saddam is ousted.

At the same time, France is struggling within the EU. France is expected to slip into violation of the Stability Pact of the eurozone. Their deficit is above 3.1% of their GDP. This is two years in a row that they will have been in violation. This violation means that they will be FORCED to lower their spending next year by the EU Monetary Affairs Commission. Oddly enough, Germany is above 3% deficit this year as well.

While this is going on daily, the United kingdom is continually refusing to join the Euro. Ask yourselves this before jumping to conclusions... can you blame them? How would you feel merging with the Mexican Peso? Or, better yet, the Argentine dollar? They would be out of their minds to join right now. The EU is in a very unstable position right now. Conceptually, the EU is great, but unless all countries can ante up the same productivity levels, what is the point? The individual countries involved are constitutionally bound to act in their own best interests first. The EU is NOT, contrary to their charter, a governing body.

On top of that, Germany is far too large, at least in their own mind, to not have a permanent seat on the UN. Oops, should have thought of that generations ago.

As for the other countries in opposition, money is the only thing at stake as well. Albeit, on a much lesser level, but, money all the same.

Conspiratorial party-line leftists in the United States, will go against anything Bush says or does, because he is Bush. However, polls continue to indicate that the American people want to see this issue resolved. Whether it be because we didn't finish the job when we had the chance the last time, or simply because we still, deep inside, need to place blame for September 11th.

Regardless, the administration did not act hastily on September 12th, 2001, as many countries had believed was inevitable. We sat down, and identified three key countries which were a potential threat to the United States. Each of these three countries carries a threat for a completely different reason, and therefore, must each be dealt with separately. Iraq is the most logical first for multiple reasons. One, we know they are in breach of a resolution which has already been passed. This violation alone, is enough to reinstate military action, but we have instead, again, employed diplomacy. Two, Iraq and Afghanistan, having both changed regimes, will bring a foundation in the Middle East for democracy to become, at the very least, more appealing. Three, bringing stability to the Middle East, will, at the very least, improve economic pressures worldwide, by encouraging an entirely new marketplace to thrive.

The Anti-American sentiment in this effort is nothing but a pathetic attempt to "control" or "harness" America. But, it's not America who is causing this problem. It is the International "community"