lowing wrote:
Bertster7 wrote:
Something much of the rest of the world are quite happy about. You're proving my point for me...
and how is that?
By providing an example of something that demonstrates that Obama is pursuing globally popular foreign policy.
lowing wrote:
Syria is a terrorist state
Really? Most of the rest of the world seem to get along with them ok. It's just Israel, and by extension the US, that do not. Obama seems to be moving away from unconditional, unilateral support of Israel, in favour of a more sensible long term peace oriented program.
No other nations seem to have seen much evidence of Syria being a terrorist state. Just outlandish claims by the Bush administration. Syria are building chemical weapons, Syria are building nukes with North Korea - that sort of thing. Given that administrations track record in such instances, I'd say they're talking rubbish. It's probable they have had some shady roles in some of the shady weapons deals that have gone on in the region - but the way they are portrayed sometimes is hilarious and clearly untrue.
lowing wrote:
and Obama is going bend over and kiss its ass.
By removing trade sanctions in a time of global recession? Doesn't make much difference at all - they never did much trade with the US. They did 24x the amount of trade with the EU that they did with the US (prior to the sanctions being imposed).
Hardly kissing their ass, removing sanctions your predecessor put in place for no clear reason (or for some bullshit reason about preventing proliferation in building weapons of mass destruction - which US trade sanctions would do very, very little to restrict).
lowing wrote:
Yeah I guess I can see how the rest of the world would love that given their jealously of the US.
Yes. Since everyone else deals with the Syrians and the US is the only nation to have imposed sanctions on them.
Before the US imposed these sanctions the
EU urged calm over Syria.
Last edited by Bertster7 (2009-02-21 00:51:56)
