January 02, 2008
Thank you, President Bush...for giving me a good laugh!
This is SO funny. Think of all of our lefties who want to apologize to the world for America's sins.....Especially the biggest sin, which is believing that our way of life (or anything) is worth fighting for... And all of them wanting to suck-up to the supposedly superior "culture and sophistication" of Europeans. And expressing their mortification at being in a country led by a cowboy...and even worse, a Christian!
And now we see Euro leaders elbowing and slapping each other aside to bask in the refulgent sunshine of....Oh, I just can't say it, it's too too too......too appalling....too mind-bending....
NY Sun: Not to be outdone by President Sarkozy's amorous overture to President Bush in Washington, Prime Minister Brown of Britain has used the first major foreign policy speech of his premiership to insist that Britain is America's closest ally.
After decades of Anglo-French rivalry, in which France has vehemently deplored the global influence America and Britain have attained and what every president of France since Charles de Gaulle has described as "Anglo-Saxon culture," Mr. Sarkozy claimed during his visit to Washington last week that France, not Britain, is now America's best friend and partner.
Mr. Brown, who has been portrayed on both sides of the Atlantic as having distanced himself from America to avoid the charge against his predecessor, Tony Blair, that he was Mr. Bush's "poodle," fought back last night, claiming in a speech at a banquet thrown by the lord mayor of the city of London that the French president's bid to usurp Britain's traditional place alongside America would not succeed.
"It is no secret that I am a lifelong admirer of America," Mr. Brown said. And, in a thinly veiled reference to France's traditional dislike of America and its culture, he added, "I have no truck with anti-Americanism in Britain or elsewhere in Europe, and I believe that our ties with America — founded on values we share — constitute our most important bilateral relationship."
He welcomed France's late conversion to the American cause and a similar newfound affection for America expressed by Chancellor Merkel of Germany in her visit to Mr. Bush's ranch in Crawford, Texas, over the weekend.... (Thanks to Rand)
The highest accolade any Euro-premier can hope for, is to allowed to make a pilgrimage to Crawford, TX. Ha ha ha.
Posted by John Weidner at January 2, 2008 03:42 PMIt is interesting that European nations seek to stand in the large shadow cast by America. At times it is difficult to determine who is kissing the hindquarters of whom. It was the British calling on America in 1951,52 and 53 to assist in a coup to take over Iran in an effort to reinstate British Petroleum as the controller of Iranian oil. But today, BP controls the largest oil fields in America, and the U.S. military is sent to the Middle East sent to "protect U.S. vital economic interests" there. Not my words. Those are the words of Carter, Reagan, Bush (41), Clinton and the current Bush.
Protecting "economic interests" fools only fools who don't understand the vested interest America has in the oil industry. The 7 Sisters of oil provide enough documented trails of evidence behind which our military dutifully follows. If any researcher would follow the money, they would inevitably find that Britain, Germany and France are inextricably tied together with the U.S. in an effort to control the world by by controlling the energy industry.
France, in its limited wisdom, has gone to 80 percent or more nuclear energy, thus freeing itself from the demonic dependence upon fossil fuels to the degree America hungrily scours the trough. It has also saved its countrymen by refusing to waddle after every forward deployment of America's troops like the British and Germans.
I do find it funny that the Euro-poodles are waddling after America to cozy up to Bush, as though he just stepped off the stage of American Idol as the chosen celebrity.
But at the same time, I am acutely aware of the former CIA that now heads our Defense Dept.(SecDef Gates), the former head of DNI that left to become No. 2 in the State Dept.(Negroponte), the former president, who is the father of our current president and a former CIA chief ... and the former CIA agent (now Asst. Secretary of Defense) that has recently publicly declared to The Associated Press that America's CIA has a vision of global domination. This is alltroubling to me, given that I am also quite aware of the aggression of the CIA in the Middle East and elsewhere ... long before America ever heard of the term War on Terror.
Oddly, you write as if you imagine I am going to be receptive to this fudge. You can't have been reading my blog, or you would have realized that I would just laugh at such schoolboy malarky.
You are playing at the geo-political equivalent of Scientology or Raëlism.
Posted by: John Weidner at January 2, 2008 08:29 PMWhat's bizarre is that people think they need a conspiracy theory to explain why the USA would try to protect a resource on which our modern economy is completely dependent. I begin to think that these people are completely detached from the hard facts of reality.
Posted by: Annoying Old Guy at January 3, 2008 07:17 AMOr why they would need a conspiracy theory to explain why the world's largest economy would want to protect the economic prosperity of the whole globe. I suspect they are not even AWARE that our economy is intertwined with the rest of the world, and could collapse if there were interruptions in world trade.
Actually, I think conspiracy theorizing is a kind of substitute for religion. People have a desire to believe that SOMEBODY is in charge. The clear fact that no one is controlling the world economy is too scary to be faced...
Posted by: John Weidner at January 3, 2008 08:17 AMPeople have a desire to believe that SOMEBODY is in charge. The clear fact that no one is controlling the world economy is too scary to be faced...
Couldn't help but think of this when I read your comment.
I feel compelled to post this just in case anyone hasn't yet seen it - truly hillarious. It's a longer clip than I wanted but it's all I could find. The end, where Bush explains the REAL truth, is as funny as anything I've ever seen on television.
Posted by: Mike Plaiss at January 3, 2008 09:09 AM
