Posts: 1370 from 2003/2/15
From: Central Europe
Quote:
Jim wrote:
Oh trust me, I am very uncomfortable with our relationship with the Saudis (the only oil refinery in my State was designed specifically for Saudi crude oil).
After all, the 9/11 terrorists were primarily Saudis (which makes our later military adventures all the more confusing).
I'm not attempting to justify US policies here.
This thread is a direct response to my own concerns over recent increases in Russian aggression.
Well, you singled out "the Europeans", which, as others pointed out, is hardly a description for a politically or culturally coherent group of people, and strongly criticized them for supposedly favoring economic over moral considerations with regard to the situation in the Ukraine.
My example was merely intented to show that, if we use the same viewpoint and standards for a comparison and assume that your base assumption was correct, "the Europeans" would probably not be acting differently than nations such as your home country, therefore do not deserve to be singled out in this manner.
