Bungled by whom?

Submitted by Kevin Synnott (United States), Apr 6, 2009 at 17:16

Some lines need to be drawn somewhere? Maybe someone else should step forward & let's see it they can do any better.

The EU 3 negotiated with Iran for about 3 years concerning their nuclear program. All the time Iran kept building. Russia stepped forward and worked at it for one year. It was the job of the UN & they have yet to do anything except get rich. Of course, Chirac's France & Shroeder's Germany were supplying Iran with banned material and technology. Russia was as well.

Here is where the US steps in and everyone wants perfection.

When negotiations in good faith take place, everyone benefits. The US negotiated with Japan in an effort to avoid what became WWII. We would have been negotiating on Dec 7, had it not been a Sunday. The next attack will be much more serious.

European govts of the 1930s could not do enough to keep Hitler & the Nazis happy to avoid war. War was avoided until Hitler was ready. Hitler was insane, yet he was not crazy enough to start a war without peace in the east. So he made an alliance with the Soviet Union. Chamberlain's England and France sat on their thumbs when a couple of regiments would have slapped Hitler around and still maintained peace in Europe.

Then comes the US to the rescue. Invasions under fire in North Africa, Sicily, Italy (twice), France (twice), Normandy being more costly to us than the others added together. How many Americans died because of European incompetence and cowardice? Churchill brought England around.

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