Why leave the USA when France and Germany and Russia are kissing *'s butt?

[Deja Q]

http://www.reuters.co.uk/newsPackageArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=EG4HWJPWRAXYKCRBAELCFEY?type=worldNews&storyID=615034§ion=news has one article.

cbsnews.com had another.

I thought the world would see us now as a rogue state.

Yet these leaders are now parroting * and looking to mend the bridges * broke.

:wtf:

[bkcc]

1. Ask yourself why they're sucking up to Dubya.

Probably because they're scared to death the little chimp will nuke the shit out of 'em.

[Deja Q]

2. Let them eat atoms. If they think anyone would use nukes...

and risk fucking up the planet for themselves, they're ultimately mistaken. Or glow-in-the-dark toast.

[Kellanved]

3. sorry ,but what did you expect?

There is even some relief about it (I just had a most interesting discussion with the President of the Bundestag about the topic); a second Bush term does mean that there will be no moral obligation to pledge more money, let alone to deploy more troops abroad.

Also, the basic diplomatic traditions of the Atlantic alliance will be continued by the European countries; that the Bush administration seemed unaware of such things won't keep Europe from observing them. Europe has a massive interest that the worldwide situation doesn't go more awry in the next four years and has to work with what's there: that happens to be Bush.

Finally I have to agree with you: leaving the US purely for political reasons seems hardly indicated, at least from my vantage point (I visited the US recently).

[sweetheart]

4. 4 years mate

So in 2001, it might not have appeared that any rift existed with
allies at all... and by 2006, the shrub 'll take it to another level
with the draft, and a new war or two.

The boiler plate international diplomat's rule with bush and his
zealots, is simple: "Smile and play nice nice." "Don't help in any
way." The bush simpletons are beyond the nuances of international
diplomacy, as if the feedback mechanisms that have kept societies
alive for centuries are suspended in a state of permanent arrogance
by the shrub and his mullahs.