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2007-11-16 Europe

All hail the Greater Eurabian Co-Prosperity Sphere

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Posted by Seafarious 2007-11-16 00:25|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top

#1 AMERICAN THINKER > SARKOZY AND THE SOCIALIST BAG OF TRICKS. Among other thingys, articles hits at Europe's "pathetic defenses", e.g. out of a reported 1.7Milyuhn people in uniform, ONLY A FEW SCORE 000's ARE ACTUALLY AVAILABLE TO ACTUALLY FIGHT ON ALL-EURO'S ACTUAL BEHALF.

*ISRAEL INSIDER > THE LYNCHING DATE IS SET. Annapolis Summit = Israel's doom??? Ergo the USA-West, one day espec vv NUCLEAR IRAN??? ALso from ISRAEL INSIDER > Egypt claims to had stopped 20 tons of TNT ["Atomic TNT"]from reaching Gaza hence Israel.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2007-11-16 01:16|| 2007-11-16 01:16|| Front Page Top

#2 Foreign Secretary David Miliband has suggested the European Union should work towards including Russia, Middle Eastern and North African countries.

Because why have a European union unless you can include Siberians, Arabs and Africans. They left out Polynesia which personally I find extremely Polynesiaphobic of them.

Posted by Excalibur 2007-11-16 09:51|| 2007-11-16 09:51|| Front Page Top

#3 His eyes are bigger than his stomach. The EU can't manage what they have now.

Posted by mojo">mojo 2007-11-16 12:11|| 2007-11-16 12:11|| Front Page Top

#4 Seems like the EU right now is like a guy that is falling off a cliff. They are thinking to themselves, "This can't be bad. It hasn't hurt yet." Never mind the fact that they are about 30 seconds away from impact.

Posted by DarthVader">DarthVader 2007-11-16 12:39|| 2007-11-16 12:39|| Front Page Top

#5 Let's test the waters. Start by cleaning up the mess that is Syria. If Europe can handle that they can talk about Russia/Middle East/NOrth Africa.

Posted by rjschwarz 2007-11-16 13:48|| 2007-11-16 13:48|| Front Page Top

#6 Foreign Secretary David Miliband has suggested the European Union should work towards including Russia, Middle Eastern and North African countries.

Yew betcha. Cuz nothing says "powerful tool" like a ~~visionary~~ delusional idiot wanting to hitch his team of spavined EU horses to some of the region's biggest political and economic deadweights.

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2007-11-16 17:15|| 2007-11-16 17:15|| Front Page Top

#7 He's wrong, but he's right, in a way. The ME, with a nucleus of Turkey, Iraq and maybe Egypt, could form a potent economic trading bloc.

Turkey would provide the know-how, because of its EU experience. Iraq has a superior economic system in place, courtesy of J. Paul Bremer, and should have explosive growth relatively soon, and Egypt also has potent assets, if it can reform itself politically.

Militarily, they would be far stronger than Europe. Turkey with its NATO military, and both Iraq and Egypt with US training and equipment. The three together, excepting nuclear weapons, would match Russia's military might.

If there would be some way, any way, for a ME Common Market (MECM) to form with democratic states, the rest of the ME would be compelled to democratize and join.

The bottom line is that if they could dispatch their tyrants and form real democracies, join together in a free market bloc, and combine their military might, the ME would be far more powerful and wealthier than Europe.

It *would* be an idealized version of the Sultanate, except that it would have no Sultan.

For something like this to begin would be the icing on the cake for Bush, after having prevented the ME from descending into chaos and maybe nuclear war.

Posted by Anonymoose 2007-11-16 18:38|| 2007-11-16 18:38|| Front Page Top

#8 The bottom line is that if they could dispatch their tyrants and form real democracies, join together in a free market bloc, and combine their military might, the ME would be far more powerful and wealthier than Europe.

That is one helluva gargantuan and unlikely "if" you've got there, 'moose.

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2007-11-16 18:47|| 2007-11-16 18:47|| Front Page Top

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