Hi All,
As this thread only goes about Al-Qaida and Europe, I can't avoid thinking about Kosovo. The Kosovo adventure stretches over two US presidents already.
I remember many(?) years ago all the talk about bringing the troops home. To the contrary, we just sent another 18,000 troops in, mostly US I understand. The "ethnic cleansing" seems to go on overthere as usual.
Interesting is all the tales that have been published about this area: Clinton's motives to get involved, Saudi Arabia's incentives, the European disinterest, etc.
In context of the Spanish mishap, one could read in the newspapers that in fact the Arabs are intent on recapturing their old territorial conquests in Spain, Portugal (and France?) they lost in the Middleages after liberation by the Europeans.
Remembering that Islam stood before the gates of Vienna only about 300 years ago, all this seems to be ominous for Europe. I think that these are the true problems the US president may have to face. Don't count on Europe to take care of these, they don't even have credible native armies anymore, only unionized "peacekeepers" and a completely "disarmed" citizenry. The Islam army seems to be ready in Europe to climb out of their hiding places. Fanning anti-Americanism by European politicians is not going to stop it.
As this thread only goes about Al-Qaida and Europe, I can't avoid thinking about Kosovo. The Kosovo adventure stretches over two US presidents already.
I remember many(?) years ago all the talk about bringing the troops home. To the contrary, we just sent another 18,000 troops in, mostly US I understand. The "ethnic cleansing" seems to go on overthere as usual.
Interesting is all the tales that have been published about this area: Clinton's motives to get involved, Saudi Arabia's incentives, the European disinterest, etc.
In context of the Spanish mishap, one could read in the newspapers that in fact the Arabs are intent on recapturing their old territorial conquests in Spain, Portugal (and France?) they lost in the Middleages after liberation by the Europeans.
Remembering that Islam stood before the gates of Vienna only about 300 years ago, all this seems to be ominous for Europe. I think that these are the true problems the US president may have to face. Don't count on Europe to take care of these, they don't even have credible native armies anymore, only unionized "peacekeepers" and a completely "disarmed" citizenry. The Islam army seems to be ready in Europe to climb out of their hiding places. Fanning anti-Americanism by European politicians is not going to stop it.
