Gazpacho:
Well, I just don`t agree with you, let`s say you point north and I point south, or viceversa. But I do respect your views, and I understand them.
There are many conservative American thinkers that I like. Have you ever checked http://www.fredoneverything.net ? I love that man, though I often don`t agree him. I think you will like some of his columns.
I think here in Europe we have grown maybe too "soft". I think American conservatives are right when they say we are feeble and have lost our convictions. Good is good, and wrong is still wrong, I guess, which is hard to remember when you hear some "ultra-progressive" speeches here, about topics like "let`s give rapists a chance" or "child abuse is just one more sexual option". And I positively HATE minorities whining speeches.
I can`t talk about Mr.Clinton`s internal politics, but I think his foreign policy was more or less the same than that of Bush. I can`t find any major difference. The key point is, he managed to make military interventions seem more "acceptable" for European progressives.
Ne`er mind about Spanish "socialism". Socialism died some sixty years ago.
And yes, here in Asturias we had quite enough red revolution and war to be fed up for the next 1000 years. It is one part of our history that no one talks about. No memorials, no speeches, no "1934 revolution day"; nothing. All my life I heard my elders say "Son, you and your generation, never start another one".
Fernando
If the Irakis had won the war, today you would be seeing crowds of happy citizens greeting their leader: that`s how human nature works.
Did you see TV yesterday? The Americans didn`t know European journalists were staying at "Palestine" hotel. What a surprise, uh? One more mistake in a long row of mistakes...It is funny they killed in the same day one Al-Jazeera journalist. What a coincidence...