Axis of evil

[Xugumad]

Originally posted by jaguar
Ture, but there has been, and will contiure to be a degree of souring of relations across the pond, mostly due to differneces in ideology. EU stop mergers, Italy has started banning new petrol cars, france and other limit work hours, america is doing the exact opposite.

Bush may have done just enough to start souring relations with Europe. To quote Chris Patten, Conservative politician, former Governor of Hong Kong, currently the commisioner in charge of the European Union's International Relations - and certainly no pacifist leftie:

Describing the Bush administration's 'axis of evil' policy:

"absolutist and simplistic"

"Gulliver can't go it alone, and I don't think it's helpful if we regard ourselves as so Lilliputian that we can't speak up and say it"

'an axis of evil' - "I find it hard to believe that's a thought-through policy," he says, adding that the phrase was deeply "unhelpful"

US policy which so far consists of "more rhetoric than substance"


http://www.guardian.co.uk/bush/story...647554,00.html

The vast majority of European governments is already quite upset with the way the Bush administration is going. It'll be interesting to see what happens next; the aggressive unilateralism by Bush will either lead to global triumph or global alienation and eventual isolationism.

Only time will tell.

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