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The Good Wars

July 6, 2008 - 6:49 pm - by Richard Fernandez
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2008-07-07 00:33:45

Yes,sure, I can agree with most all of that. I think our foreign policy has worked pretty well, taken all in all. After all, all of Europe is free now, and the first thing they did, when out from under the Soviet gun, was rush to the west, as everyone knew they would. Now, they elect their leaders, want to join, or have joined, the EU and NATO, and a guy can fly to Poland and stay in a hotel. I call this a big success. There is not going to be another big war in Europe. Germany is not going to invade Belgium or France. They have their own governments and own lives. When our Founding Fathers talked about no alliances, etc. it was a good idea for those days. But they had not the automobile, or the airplane, much less all the other developments. It always kind of irritates me when people talk about the Fathers, when they would not even recognize the world we live in now. I wonder sometimes, what would they say now? In these circumstances?