| Date: | Wednesday April 16, @01:19AM |
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| Author: | admin |
| Topic: | Bush |
| from the news.com.au dept. | |
France, Germany, and Russia have already talked about forming their own defense alliance, China and Russia have a pact, and now the rest of Europe is starting to talk about arming themselves:
GREEK Defence Minister Yiannos Papantoniou, whose country holds the EU presidency, has said a new wave of US arrogance is the "principal danger" after the Iraq war.
"This victory ... of the United States could lead to a new wave of arrogance or arrogant behaviour with new unilateral interventions," he said in a TV interview.
"That's the principal danger because if there is no international supervision on these interventions, this could lead to a world of chaos and, I would say, to the law of the jungle."
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"If Europe ... is not strengthened economically and militarily and united politically, the Americans are condemned to have this sense of superior power and arrogance." (Emphasis added)
Currently, the US spends more on armaments -- I won't call it 'defense' spending, since that is clearly no longer a correct term -- than the rest of the world combined. That isn't going to be true for much longer, apparently.
http://news.com.au/common/story_page/0,4057,6287056%255E25778,00.html
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