How about the Euro governments? Ever occur to you guys that you are > being manipulated and lied to by your governments? Seems to be a > no-brainer to you that we are ... but you? Ever think of that? Are you feeling all right, Eric? We know perfectly well the UK government lies all the time; only someone who never read our media could not know it. Citizens of other European countries, equally, know about their governments. But that doesn't make your interpretation of their thoughts and actions correct Judy ----- Original Message ----- From: "Eric" <mr.eric.yost@xxxxxxxxx> To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Wednesday, February 14, 2007 11:55 PM Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: comments the DEMs must defend > Simon: As for Afghanistan, I can only guess that this is down to further > concern about acting in conjunction with a US force under the control of > an unpopular government. > > > How about the Euro governments? Ever occur to you guys that you are > being manipulated and lied to by your governments? Seems to be a > no-brainer to you that we are ... but you? Ever think of that? > > Your "further concern" = the Euro politicians know that their armies are > so substandard they'd take big casualties and don't want to risk a big > backlash against big casualties in a noble cause, or suffer the ignominy > of being directed by a Brit or a Yank. I mean why should they? > > > * they already have a "bad guy" in the US and can play that to their > populations because > > * they don't want to make the social concessions involved in getting a > strong army > > * The bad guy will do all the heavy lifting for them anyway ------------------------------------------------------------------ To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html