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Diane_Keaton
Help how? What precise help are you upset about losing and from which countries? I don’t recall any country in a position to send us money to help rebuild our towers so I’m thinking you mean countries were willing after 9/11 to search harder for terrorists in their countries. If so, nabbing terror cells in one’s country benefits one’s own country and not just Americans.
Anyways, if you are saying Bush lost this “help” by going to war in Iraq, what do you perceive as the consequences? A particular country will get lax in searching for terror cells because the country is pissed off that Bush went forward without full UN backing in Iraq? Well, that’s really smart of the country. They’ll sure show US, won’t they?
Before I hear any more sob stories about how bad it sucks that Norway no longer feels sorry for us (The Horror!) and how important it is that France and Russia think our President is “Not Diplomatic” why don’t you all finally tell us what exactly you want from these countries. List it all out by country – France, Russia, Sweden, Spain... Probably, you’ll think about it and decide to skirt the issue by joking about how awful a cheese/wine ban would be. Because I have yet to hear anything beyond “Diplomacy is good” and “everyone really liked us after 9/11 and now they don’t.” Or anyone explain why being felt sorry for is a good position to be in, as opposed to a strong position.
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A big fat
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That a bunch of governments sent condolences and that the citizens of countries like, say, Portugal, Brussels, Sri Lanka and Peru, all came together for one shining moment to hold hands and sing "Kum Bah Yah" really amounts to not much more than a hill of beans.
"squandering" nothing is still nothing.
