Comments on: Is demilitarised Europe affecting operations in Afghanistan?

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By: rex minor

rex minor — Sat, 27 Mar 2010 08:58:55 +0000

@D ra
What difference the yankees made in Europe, south America,Vietnam and Indo China?
Europe today is not part of the third reich but very much dependent upon the German reich! The US should take more interest in their hemisphere and sort out the problems of its neighbours Mexico. The Gringos are very much wanted there.

By: Tom

Tom — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 18:51:23 +0000

Americans are so tired of Spending our Blood & Capital on Countries that have no allegiance and never will have. This from a man with 10 years in the Armed Forces, I agree, Enemies of 10,000 years will never be happy until one or the other is destroyed, Man, Woman & Child so no retaliation is possible. If you recall that is Biblical History.

By: Darth Ra, Cali

Darth Ra, Cali — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 03:44:40 +0000

I rarely differ with most europeans but if it weren’t for my yankee boys (and allies, somewhat), most, if not all, of europe today would’ve been part of Hitler’s twisted third reich. And, NATO is dragging its feet, yet again? I gotta agree w Gates…I’m not a warmonger but sometimes “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.”

By: Aaron

Aaron — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 11:37:32 +0000

Maybe people will understand why America is fighting these wars when a national landmark is destroyed in Europe. I hope this never happens, but it was a wake up call when it happend in New York. America needs its European allies to ensure that something like that never happens again, on our soil or anywhere else.

By: Koutstaal

Koutstaal — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 13:19:15 +0000

USA shows more and more features of the late Habsburg empire as at 1910. For the Germanic part of Europe the dominance was definitely over after the stunning defeats in the 1st half of 1940 and in their colonies in 1941/1942 for the nations west of Germany, and for Germany itself in 1941 – 1945. All empires crumbled away, and despite wars to reestablish their clout, never recovered. The Slavic part collapsed in the eighties.
Why there still exists an organisation called NATO? With the enlargement with Slavic countries the 2 hereditary arch-enemies Germans ans Slavs are forced to not only peacefully live together, but also assist each other. To my view, the new members in the east are at best untrustworthy – like the Wehrmacht found out when they were allied to Germany and the going became rough.
And then, if the dismal show in Afghanistan is all NATO be capable of, a rethink of European security is a pressing issue.

By: rex minor

rex minor — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 00:56:28 +0000

USA is more or less the only capitalist country left in the world. Most powerful countries in Europe have a social market economy, different from the pure capitalist economy of the US.The citizens have a national health system, receive unemployment benefits and state sponsored pensions which they receive after retirement. The US on the other hand spends around one trillion dollars annualy on their military and do not provide health support to their forty million citizens. They are indebted to China, Japan and the Saudi Arabia. Keeping a military on borrowed money is not very sound.

I doubt if Robert Gates is able to grasp this reality at his age. The european citizens have left their two world wars behind and want to have peace. Some of their Govts. are still not able to get rid of their NATO obligations but sooner or later the will of the people is going to prevail. The Europeans are in no way pacifists and have adequate military o defend their countries.

By: Rahomme Delind

Rahomme Delind — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 16:38:03 +0000

The time has come for the U.S. to give up on the rest of the world, withdraw to its own borders, and let China take over the task of policing, protecting, and feeding (giving aids to) the world.
As to Iran and the Middle East, the U.S. should let them develop their nuclear and other weapons, and use them the way they deem fit, with the full understanding that if they misbehave towards the West and/or Israel, there will be other Hiroshimas.