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2006-08-25 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

Denmark: Not sending troops would signal weakness

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Posted by Fred 2006-08-25 00:00|| || Front Page|| [3 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Danish troops would likely be targeted because of the cartoon-jihad incident.

Posted by Snease Shaiting3550 2006-08-25 00:23|| 2006-08-25 00:23|| Front Page Top

#2 Unless the EU troops are prepared to kick Hizb'allah's arse for not disarming they shouldn't be made targets or hostages.

Posted by Sock Puppet of Doom 2006-08-25 01:27|| www.sockpuppetofdoom.com]">[www.sockpuppetofdoom.com] 2006-08-25 01:27|| Front Page Top

#3 Denmark: Not sending troops would signal weakness
but is not prepared to send troops to the mission.

Posted by ed 2006-08-25 02:01|| 2006-08-25 02:01|| Front Page Top

#4 So, are they going to burn their boat upon arrival?

Posted by Zenster 2006-08-25 02:47|| 2006-08-25 02:47|| Front Page Top

#5 I don't think these guys understand irony.

Posted by mojo">mojo 2006-08-25 10:30|| 2006-08-25 10:30|| Front Page Top

#6 They understand it. They also understand isolation. I suspect they're trying to get the rest of EUrope to demonstrate the kind of backbone thee Danes have repeatedly shown.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2006-08-25 10:40|| 2006-08-25 10:40|| Front Page Top

#7 #1: The European Union has been weak for 25 years. These "signals" are simply a reflection of reality.

#2: European troops are too weak to stop either Hezbollah or Israel in the event of new fighting, and their governments would be powerless to either help them or remove them. Putting them in harms way is gambling with their lives.

Posted by DoDo 2006-08-25 11:22|| 2006-08-25 11:22|| Front Page Top

#8 The next time someone pontificates on the need to bring our European allies along in order to validate an operation, I hope we remember this fiasco.

Posted by charger 2006-08-25 14:36|| 2006-08-25 14:36|| Front Page Top

#9 Yup, charger, I certainly hope this is our last time of "jumping through all the hoops" for the international community. From now on "unilateral" is the word. Fat lot of good all of our supposed allies (save, perhaps, Denmark, Britain and Australia) are doing.

Posted by Zenster 2006-08-25 16:46|| 2006-08-25 16:46|| Front Page Top

#10 "When all you've got is a hammer, all your problems look like nails".
The EU (*not* Europe) is a tranzi post-national construct built on "soft-power". Even if the EUcrats have wishes of "european defense", they don't have neither the mean nor the will to project military power, and I suspect most european national armies are not even suited to defending their territory anymore.

But, of course, as their delusions include the idea that the use of force is "obselete", they stick to the tranzi bag of tricks : ngo, "international law", public opionon makers,...
I really, really can picture the algerian army invading France when/if the SHTF between french and migrants (to "restore order" and prevent atrocities against muslim, of course)... also, compare EU militaries with the turkish army.

Posted by anonymous5089 2006-08-25 17:47|| 2006-08-25 17:47|| Front Page Top

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