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April 30, 2003

Some are More Equal Than Others

On the announcement that France, Germany, Belgium, and Luxembourg have created a defense union, President Jacques Chirac said,

Quite naturally a multi-polar world is being created, whether one likes it or not. It's inevitable. For balance to exist, there will have to be a strong Europe. Relations between the European Union and the United States will have to be a partnership between equals.

Equality between Europe and the U.S. won't happen until Europe switches its spending from lavish social welfare spending to tanks, planes, and guns. It's hard to be equals when your military is dependent on U.S. airplanes for transport.

"'Old Europe' Presses Ahead with Plans for an EU Army" [via Drudge]

Posted by Sean Hackbarth in Foreign Affairs at 01:36 AM | Comments (2)