General rants about computers and politics, neither in that order, nor necessarily related, intertwingled with thoughts on whatever I've been reading lately.
Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | Europe seethes as defiant US goes its own way
The rest of the article is a litany of the increasingly numerous rifts between the US and Europe, and follows the usual pattern of whining about how the backward, uncultured US is angering the sophisticated, superior Europeans by ignoring them. Callously, of course.
Pretty funny, actually.
Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | Europe seethes as defiant US goes its own way
The European commission president, Romano Prodi, said he was deeply concerned by Washington's opposition. "It's another movement of division between Europe and the US that we have to avoid at any cost," he said.
Unfortunately for the sensitive feelings of the EUrocrats, the US isn't behind this "movement of division" -- The EU started this whole ICC thing. That no body of the US Government has constitutional authority to join the ICC should have occurred to them before, or would have, had (a) they had stable constitutions of their own and (b) Clinton not pretended to them that our Constitution was not a problem.
But the fact remains that what movement has occurred has been that of the EU and the other tyrannies of the world moving away from the republican principles that the US was founded on over 200 years ago.
To those members of the EU and NATO that have demonstrated, by their acquiescence to the ICC that they wish to surrender their rights to an unelected court and join hands with the other tyrannies of the world, I would only admonish them to not let the door hit their ass on the way out. But don't expect us to join you.
HoustonChronicle.com - U.S. buildup in Qatar may foreshadow Iraq attack
Looks like we're finally getting ready to take on Iraq and Iran.
