Standing on top of the world I see .......
Life is like climbing a mountain and cope with difficulties and setbacks, resulting in enjoying the perfect view. Eventually that's what this blog is about. With a smile I say it's climbing Maslows mountain.
Jan, After reading at your Blog, I decided to apologize for my initial angry response to your post.
Possibly we have some miscommunication due to your fluency with English?
If you had asked me specifically, what/who Europe views as the largest threat to security -- you would have gotten a different, and more specific response.
All input is welcome -- let's just try to do it without name calling, okay? I will post this on your Blog as well.
~WWB [Of course, this is assuming you were the poster who stopped in and anonymously referred to me as 'delusional' ;)
WWB, first of all I am from the Netherlands. My political views are what you call democratic. In Europe we call it left. I've a social democratic opinion. What I said or asked was a retorical question; Do you know the European opinion on the condition of the world?
My answer is that it's bad. Under Bush's governance it has become worse. I remind mind you of the words -if you aren't with us you are against us-. America didn't use UN's security counsil to break the Saddam Hussein regime. There are other examples of US body language. But what I think (not only me) is that America lost contact with Europe. We used to be an ally. But going your own way, brutalizing Europe on many fronts, it seems that the US is against us. And us is becoming a real power; Russia is more and more a part of Europe like it used to be in the 1900's. The world would be better off with Europe pulling the strings. I don't understand why the USA hosts the United Nations if they don't accept it's rulling. If there's one to respect the UN it's their host.
Do you understand? The worst thing is losing contact; not communicating, not learning from eachother.
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Jan,
After reading at your Blog, I decided to apologize for my initial angry response to your post.
Possibly we have some miscommunication due to your fluency with English?
If you had asked me specifically, what/who Europe views as the largest threat to security -- you would have gotten a different, and more specific response.
All input is welcome -- let's just try to do it without name calling, okay? I will post this on your Blog as well.
~WWB
[Of course, this is assuming you were the poster who stopped in and anonymously referred to me as 'delusional' ;)
WWB, first of all I am from the Netherlands. My political views are what you call democratic. In Europe we call it left. I've a social democratic opinion.
What I said or asked was a retorical question; Do you know the European opinion on the condition of the world?
My answer is that it's bad. Under Bush's governance it has become worse. I remind mind you of the words -if you aren't with us you are against us-. America didn't use UN's security counsil to break the Saddam Hussein regime. There are other examples of US body language.
But what I think (not only me) is that America lost contact with Europe. We used to be an ally. But going your own way, brutalizing Europe on many fronts, it seems that the US is against us. And us is becoming a real power; Russia is more and more a part of Europe like it used to be in the 1900's.
The world would be better off with Europe pulling the strings.
I don't understand why the USA hosts the United Nations if they don't accept it's rulling. If there's one to respect the UN it's their host.
Do you understand?
The worst thing is losing contact; not communicating, not learning from eachother.
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