Not seen any referendum on the US joining NAFTA or similar./QUOTE]
We voted to join NAFTA and a damn good thing it was and is.
3000+ years of history... what do you expect? Europe is hardly the only place on the planet with such "horrors"
Name another place on the planet then that has a bloodier history than Europe. Can you think of any??
it is just the most well know since modern civilization is based from Europe. The "horrors" done in China over the last 4000 years dwarf that of Europe btw, but they are not as well known.
No, they are not as well known, for sure, but when the Chinese adopted Communism, another incredibly and unforgivably stupid idea by the Europeans, the results are well known. Forty million dead is it, in China alone?
I said between countries...and that is not false. Well with the exception of Russia and Georgia come to think of it, but they have zero to do with the EU.
Oh.My apologies. So it's your claim that members of the EU have managed to stay at peace with each other lately only because of the EU. But you will admit to some internal struggles within these members states. And you apparently believe that the more countries there are admitted to the EU that the more peace will spread? is that your take?
Not part of the EU for one. Bosnia was civil war, not between nations. And as fir "the entire eastern half of the continent".. what countries other than Russia and Georgia have been at war?
My point was, and continues to be, that Europe is a mess and a danger to the world. They appear to have learned nothing from history, especially their own history, and seem doomed to repeat it. Your simplistic idea that belonging to the EU will somehow transform the continent into a place of good will and free trade is as ludicrous as any other scheme Europeans have come up in the last 100 years. And while embracing each other in this Kumbaya moment, those who you've been at war with for as long ad human memory exists, you've also alienated your old friends, as though trashing your former Allies was a prerequisite to EU membership. This was a huge error over the long term.
HAHAHAH, yea right. I am not denying that US forces played their part in holding back the Soviet empire
Then what are you laughing at?
but for 2000 years European wars have been over political and economic issues.
Too true! And with those "political issues" enjoying some odd twists.
There was almost no year in European history prior to WW2 that there was not a war of some sort in Europe.
Yes. we know. We lost hundreds of thousands of good men and women in European created wars.
With the EU we had a method to discuss and solve BOTH, something we have not had before. Hence the major European players in the UK, France and Germany plus the semi big political players of Holland, Belgium, Italy, Austria and so on have not been at war with each other for over 50 years and that is a first in European history. And the EU has a huge part in that.
The EU had nothing to do with that. American (and Canadian) forces did. You can sign all the treaties and agreements you choose to, and have throughout history, and they'll always eventually be ignored. A missile base cannot.
In title yes.. in power.. hell no.. he is nothing but a glorified office manager. He can comment all he wants on policy and make a fool of himself, but in reality he has zero power.
Then why have him there? This is just another example of how bureaucratic and inefficient the EU is. It's all about symbolism. But what happens when this bureaucracy gains power, and unlimited power? I doubt this position will remain a symbol for long. It's there for a reason.
No, American tv like Fox News and right wing blogs.
You watch Fox News? Great! Who is your favorite, and least favorite commentator?