[cmccuist]

France, Germany, Italy, Spain, (ie Old Europe) are too in love with their treaties and commissions and world courts to help us. They still think they matter (France has the same GNP as Georgia for cryin' out loud - our Georgia, not the old USSR Georgia).

New Europe is where our allies will come from - former Eastern bloc countries and the 'stans from the former Soviet Union - also the Brits who are very strong when it comes to spreading civilization.

The UN is a disaster wherever they go. Look what a mess they've made of the Sudan - they're actually concerned with the Sudan maintaining thier "soveriegnty" because some of the social workers who are coming to help don't have thier passports and visas quite right. The UN is a beuracracy on steriods.