OT (or is it?): American Imperialism

[TerranC]

No offense, but you should open your eyes. Under NO circumstances would countries with history like france and especially germany be willing to openly accept the stationing of nuclear weapons within their countries.

France has nukes of its own; Germany doesn't need to host any nukes if it does currently since US bases in Italy can more than accomodate them. Both countries don't need to station US nukes, or at least not anymore. If it wasn't for the vehement opposement of German politicians, bases in Germany would quickly be closed and US service personnel would be sent home or somewhere else where they are needed like Turkey or the Persian Gulf.

BUT, and thats the point here, would they have denied the US request they would have to face certain consequences. When germany didnt participated in the iraq war, most german companies were sanktioned and didnt received ANY official orders/tasks both in iraq and afganistan. Up to NOW, it is inofficialy known that german companies are overseen when choosing which companies get which order. And THIS indeed is cultural imperalism. I dont get your point...

Of course that's cultural imperialism. It doesn't matter that companies of 48 nations from all five continents were eligible to recieve contracts for the reconstruction of Iraq, ranging from the UK to South Korea to Japan to the Netherlands to Poland to the Ukraine and many more, because their respective nations gave direct or indirect support (and some not even troops) to the Coalition war effort, as long as Russian, German, French, and Canadian companies were never even considered even after their respective governments chose not to get themselves involved with Iraq in any way possible, that just shows the blatant pervasiveness of US cultural dominance that the Americans seek to diffuse around the world!

Edit: Btw, you must have missed this.
http://edition.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/am...mit/index.html

Over the last month i have read so many articles its hardly to believe. I think europens definitly get to know more than americans or canadians or texans or whatever.

Of course, I mean, those european media outlets get their news not just from Reuters but from Associated Press too! Just like every other media outlet in the world.

Would you know what i do, i would be sure you would agree on the entire line with me. America is wrong, american people, the gouverment, the president, their are all wrong and need to be taken care off.

And this is a sure sign that europeans such as yourself know a lot more about the world than the rest of us.

I dont know how, but something must happen in the near future. While im at it, i dont entirely blame the population for it, because they are somehow kept "stupid". I mainly blame the newspapers and tv and stuff for not spreading information correctly. Then again, i fully blame the gouverment and whoever helped bringing bush into the presidents position.

[Renegade 13]

TerranC said:
Edit: Btw, you must have missed this.
http://edition.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/am...mit/index.html

I stand corrected. However, the right to bid on a contract doesn't necessarily mean that the aforementioned bid will be considered, does it? Pure political posturing. (The Triple P )