Europe - Who Needs Them 

Europe - Who Needs Them

Now I don't mean to offend our friends from Great Britain, Poland, and Italy. I'd include Spain, but they turned out to be without a backbone too. We pulled France's fat out of the fire not once, but twice in a fifty year period. When we needed them, where were they. Sitting at home, drinking their wine and bad mouthing us. And the Germans, don't get me started. The Berlin airlift means nothing to them? How about the destruction of the Berlin wall? For that matter all of Europe owes us a vote of thank you for ending the Cold War. If we had left the continent anytime between 1945 and 1989 the Soviet Union would have swallowed Western Europe like an asprin. So as far as I'm concerned, I don't think that we should be sending any economic aid to any country that failed to respond in our favor in the past 5 years. Germany is calling for the end of NATO and maybe we shouldn't oppose it. Maybe we ought to let them just implode. I'd be calling on Great Britain to secede from the EU. We need to close our remaining bases in Germany and take our money where it will be appreciated. Close Frankfurt and move the AirForce to Poland, Bosnia, or move it all to Italy. I believe the Italians and the Pols would appreciate an influx of US Dollars. And Bosnia could use more in economic aid. We could spend our foreign aid packages where it would do us more good. In countries that are friendly to us. All that cash would work wonders in Iraq. Imagine how many roads, bridges, and power plants could be re-built. And maybe we should be trying to strike a deal with the new Iraqi government. Become their #1 and maybe only oil customer. It's an idea.