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« Reply #25 on: December 24, 2003, 12:49:13 PM »

Strasburg in the Elsass-Lothringen? Everyone knows that all of the Zollverein's important policies are enacted in the Reichstag, under the watchful gaze of Kaiser Wilhelm V. Oh, sorry, Guess I Turtledoved off again...

The problem with the EU (well, there are a few, but the biggest) is that it is undemocratic. The Commission was not chosen by ordinary Europeans like Gustaf and Realpolitik, and that is a real problem. The Euros need an elected president and a more powerful parliament, perhaps one that is bicameral like that established by the Connecticut Compromise here in the USA (one with equal representation for all member states, one where more populous states have greater power). However, in principle I have no problem with a democratic European superstate, so long as it, like the USA, is committed to the expansion of democracy and the defeat of tyranny and terrorism.

So, at the battle of Waterloo a Redcoat was shot, and the French captured him. So the French officer says, "Wha are you wearin those silly red clothes, you silly English person? It makes it easy for us to shoot at you, you funny strenge English person!"

So the English mananswers, "Well, you see, old chap, it's quite simple really. The coat is red, so you don't see the blood. Jolly good, eh. what what?"

"Oh, zat is an interesting idea!" Says the Frenchman. Thereafter the French army worre brown panrts into battle.
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« Reply #26 on: December 24, 2003, 02:38:41 PM »
« Edited: March 05, 2005, 05:27:48 PM by Peter Bell »


The French continued to wear bright red and blue uniforms during WWI when everyone else changed into more camouflage uniforms.

About the EU: I agree with your points on democracy. The main problem with the EU is who are behind it and why. It is a project developed by and for European politicians. That's why the EU will never be democratic, pro-american, pro-market, in favour of free trade or anything else one would like it to be. There is no good reason for giving up the nation state as the prime political unit in Europe. Also, the difference towards the US is that you feel like Americans. We don't feel like Europeans and it just wont work. American politics work rather grindingly, as I see it, and would never work unless you shared a strong belief in a common destiny. It is manageable in the US. It would be catastrophic in Europe. 
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« Reply #27 on: December 25, 2003, 04:06:55 PM »

The anti-French thing is just as childish as the anti-American thing. Both sides should grow up.
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« Reply #28 on: December 26, 2003, 05:24:00 AM »

The anti-French thing is just as childish as the anti-American thing. Both sides should grow up.

Nah, the French really are bad! I'm just saying: aiding genocide in Rwanda, blowing up a Greenpeace boat, providing Saddam Hussein with the means to get nuclear arms, etc. France is a fine country when it comes to things like wine and cheese, but in politics they are usually not likeable. They just don't have the concept of morality in their foreign policy. The US isn't perfect but they are certainly not on the French level.
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