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Can Poland Depend Europe Or Should The Polish People Look Out For Themselves?
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Warsaw, Poland 6 April, 2007 Based on what the Polish people see how Europe reacted to help the British, they should take note and think about what would happen were that Polish military people who had been taken hostage. The Polish people have a long history of being abandoned by those whom one would expect to help defend Poland. Would history repeat itself and Poland be left to fend for itself? Poland seems to be putting a lot of faith in the United States. But is that faith well founded?
"America has failed to engage its enemies, or tactically retreated when the going got tough, repeatedly since Vietnam: Iran in 1979, Lebanon in 1983, Iraq in 1991, Somalia in 1993." See OpinionJournal - Best of the Web Today - April 4, 2007.
Though President George W. Bush seems to be supporting Poland strongly, if the Democratic Party gets full control of the US Government can Poland depend on that to continue? Even now the Democrats have their own foreign policy and they are actively implementing that policy over the objections of President Bush.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi delivered the wrong message to Syrian President Bashar Assad from Israel, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's office said on Wednesday evening. European anti-Americanism is having its effect on America. America is shifting its focus towards the India, Japan, Australian "Axis of Democracy". http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewForeignBureaus.asp?Page=/ForeignBureaus/archive/200704/INT20070405a.html
Poland should be able to see how dependable Europe is, particularly if it looks at what happened with the British hostages in Iran.
"What is disturbing about the Iranian piracy is that it establishes a warning of what we can come to expect when Iran is nuclear, and how organizations like the UN, the EU, and NATO will react. If a few Iranian terrorists in boats can paralyze an entire nation and the above agencies, think what a half-dozen Iranian nukes will do. This was the hour of Europe to step forward and show the world what it can do with sanctions, embargoes, and boycotts, and how such soft power is as effective as gunboats—and it is passing.
The incident also redefines "asset". A European naval vessel, under current rules of engagement, seems to me more a liability, a floating diplomatic embarrassment waiting to happen. In this Orwellian logic, the British decision to mothball some of the ships now on duty in the Gulf makes sense: fewer chances that one will be challenged, humiliated, or attacked by Islamists." A Taste of Things to Come
And Europe is weak. "The Iraqi army is "now larger than the standing armies of France and Great Britain." http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2007/04/will_dems_thwart_success_in_ir.html And the British Navy has just been reduced to the same size as the Belgian Navy.
Even if the armies and navies were powerful, when dealing with European countries it should always be remembered that, "... as a rule, these are European nations that will suffer almost any indignity to talk a problem away." http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2007/04/please_bomb_me.html
Even so, the British hostage crisis could have been solved with a simple threat by the European Union. "If the EU would cease all its trade with Iran, and if the West would divest entirely from the country - that is, boycott all companies that do any business with Tehran - the theocracy would face bankruptcy within months." http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2007/04/please_bomb_me.html
But Europe apparently did not even make the threat.
Europeans pride themselves on being liberal. If one uses the definition of a liberal as one who will not even fight to protect his own interests, one can understand the European propensity for inaction, lack of committment, and shifting the blame to someone else.
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