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| The United State of America’s Allies |
| 2004-04-07 |
| EFL Until the March 11 terrorist attacks in Madrid and its aftermath in the election of a Socialist anti-Iraq-war government in Spain, not much had been written in the establishment press about the countries fighting alongside the United States in the coalition forces. Even though troops from 36 nations were on the ground with U.S. troops as action to liberate Iraq began last March, and more than 80 nations are helping with reconstruction, the Bush administration had been described by Democratic partisans as "going it alone" and fighting the war "unilaterally." Presidential candidate Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) has said he will repair U.S. relations with the "rest of the world," as if opposing countries such as Germany, France, Russia and a few radical Islamic states in the Middle East somehow constitute opposition from the "rest of the world." This is an illuminating article. Please read as this writer highlights many of allies, such as El Salvador and the hundreds of troops this small country has sent to help us and the Iraqi people. |
| Posted by:Dragon Fly |
| #5 The problem is the US can do these things alone and everyone knows it. Why bother if it will get done anyway. In fact you can even oppose the US and try to get on the good side of a lot of bad people and the job will still get done. Problem with this thinking is the bad people may not give you any credit, they may consider you weak, and a target. |
| Posted by: ruprecht 2004-04-07 2:43:28 PM |
| #4 It concerns whole peoples who in their majorities feel alienated by America's actions. And what actions were those, that caused all this alienation? |
| Posted by: Rafael 2004-04-07 12:38:29 PM |
| #3 That's what I meant, Jarhead -- that the bombing suddenly made the Spanish people interested to the war in Iraq, more so than they earlier were. |
| Posted by: Aris Katsaris 2004-04-07 11:32:17 AM |
| #2 "But when they suddenly *do* get interested, as they did in Spain" >Aris, - I believe they (the Spanish) got interested due to being bombed themselves, not necessarily the war in Iraq. Aznar would of won that election had it not been for the bombing in Madrid despite what was going on in Iraq - as the polls clearly showed on the day before the attack. |
| Posted by: Jarhead 2004-04-07 9:50:42 AM |
| #1 The problem doesn't lie in lack of governmental support, but in the lack of popular support in all countries other than America and (to a lesser extent) UK. Currently this will not be a problem for the US as long as most people worldwide aren't really interested in the Iraq war one way or another, not enough to make them change their votes anyway. But when they suddenly *do* get interested, as they did in Spain, then anti-American government can easily take the lead in nations that formerly supported you... "Repairing US relations with the rest of the world" doesn't only concern Germany, France, Russia and a few radical Islamic states -- because it doesn't only concern *states*. Or governments. It concerns whole peoples who in their majorities feel alienated by America's actions. |
| Posted by: Aris Katsaris 2004-04-07 9:18:22 AM |