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2008-11-07 Britain

UK Mirror: Obama's dogs of war set to snap at Brown

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Posted by ryuge 2008-11-07 07:43|| || Front Page|| [11128 views ] Top

#1 Europe's foolish embrace of Obama will now be rewarded with a US president who sees Muslim immigrants to Europe more favorably than Europeans. Europe is now the enemy.

Posted by Anonymoose 2008-11-07 08:03|| 2008-11-07 08:03|| Front Page Top

#2 Europe will be expected to end the anti-Americanism of the Bush years and "pull its weight". Britain gets to ride point for Nato in the Afghan war.

I wish.

Posted by Mike 2008-11-07 08:22|| 2008-11-07 08:22|| Front Page Top

#3 Setting aside the moronic Mirror editorialising, what's threatened here is mostly good for Britain and Europe. Britain has neglected its military strength for decades and is at the moment over-stretched. There shouldn't be any slackening after an Iraq withdrawal which would allow Labour to have another hack at it. As for Europe, those cheapskate freeloaders haven't paid their way for decades.

If people riot in Bradford and Blackburn we'll all know where we stand. Let Labour's bleeding hearts try to apologise for that.

Posted by Bulldog 2008-11-07 08:52|| 2008-11-07 08:52|| Front Page Top

#4 I feel sorry for our good Brit cousins. Your editorialists are as bad as ours.

Posted by Broadhead6 2008-11-07 09:05|| 2008-11-07 09:05|| Front Page Top

#5 Ah, yes. "Be careful what you wish for."
I think they'll be saying that a lot over the next four years. All over the world...

Posted by tu3031 2008-11-07 10:09|| 2008-11-07 10:09|| Front Page Top

#6 Indeed - but where the pain means standing on your own two feet a bit more that's no bad thing.

Of course Obama's lame-brain protectionist policies and probable appeasement-based foreign policy will just cause agony for everyone.

Posted by Bulldog 2008-11-07 10:12|| 2008-11-07 10:12|| Front Page Top

#7 One of the good things to come out of having a typical third world autocrat in the White House, is that Europe will find out how much their own hyper liberal lifestyle owed to the the "primitive barbarians" of USA. One might say that Europe is like a rebellious adolescent, now leaving his parents home for the first time. Good luck boys & girls trying to live on your own.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2008-11-07 10:14|| 2008-11-07 10:14|| Front Page Top

#8 Chirac's ilk's cherished multi-polar world is probably on its way as the US consigns itself to a period of insularity, shrinking economy and reduced military influence overseas. It's what they wished for. I'm sure Europe find Putin, the Sheiks and China delightfully benign...

Posted by Bulldog 2008-11-07 10:28|| 2008-11-07 10:28|| Front Page Top

#9 Brutal and barbaric? There's more of that nuanced, precisely analytical, and coolly rational language that our betters in the "creative" class are so well known for. But pay me no mind, I'm still trying to figure out what was so bad about Nixon.

Posted by Some One Not The One 2008-11-07 16:44|| 2008-11-07 16:44|| Front Page Top

#10 I do believe that a lot of people are going to look back on the Bush years with nostalgia before the next presidential election in 2012.

Posted by Old Patriot">Old Patriot 2008-11-07 19:49|| http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/]">[http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/] 2008-11-07 19:49|| Front Page Top

#11 I do believe that a lot of people are going to look back on the Bush years with nostalgia before the next presidential election in 2012.

Posted by Old Patriot">Old Patriot 2008-11-07 19:49|| http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/]">[http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/] 2008-11-07 19:49|| Front Page Top

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