The Euro Trashing of Bush

[Ronald_Barbour]

Reprinted from NewsMax.com

Euro Trashing of President Is Garbage
Dan Frisa

Wednesday, June 13, 2001

The Left has engaged in a vicious, sustained attack on the president and a host of his policies – ostensibly of great concern to the amorphous "Europeans" – as a means of damaging him politically at home.
The full force of the Left's propaganda machine is working at a fever pitch to discredit the new president, and evidence is everywhere you look.

From the outright lies on page one of the New York Times regarding the Kyoto treaty, which not one European country other than Romania has signed, to robotic support for the 1972 ABM treaty with the non-existent Soviet Union, to a quirky and odd focus on capital punishment, the Left is throwing everything but the kitchen sink at the president.

It's not working, however.

Just as they attempted to do to Ronald Reagan on the Grenada invasion and the Iceland summit, as well as his Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI), all unsuccessfully, they are trying to do now to George W. Bush.

They are staring him down, but he isn't blinking. And it's driving them nuts.

The Kyoto treaty is a farce and the Left knows it. Let's face it, the U.S. Senate unanimously voted against its consideration, Clinton never embraced it by actually sending it to the Senate for ratification, no major country has adopted it, and it lets communist China and India completely off the hook with regard to emission standards. (See Kooky Kyoto Kool Aid.)

Why in the world should the United States agree to it unilaterally?

We should not and the president has had the courage to say so.

The ABM treaty with the now-defunct Soviet Union is also a farce. Legal scholars and experts on international law have concluded that a treaty with a non-existent entity is null and void. Period. So how is it that the U.S. should somehow be bound by a now-meaningless agreement? (See Trick or Treaty?.)

Related to the ABM farce is the president's plan for a National Missile Defense (NMD) system that would protect the U.S. and our allies from nuclear attacks. (See NY Times Funny Pages.)

Sounds like a sound concept, and it is.

So why should the "Europeans" be opposed to it?

Go figure, and who cares anyway?

Leadership is something that has been so sorely lacking both domestically and on foreign affairs in the U.S. that the Left is shocked that a Republican president would actually have the fortitude to exert it and not be cowed by their endless harangues.

The hypocrites in Europe are one thing, and are easily dealt with.

The outright lying from the Left in the U.S. is another.

Same is true with them: Who cares? They are meaningless and will move on to another attempt to destroy President Bush on the next issue that comes along.

This entire sorry episode of Euro trashing the president is garbage. It's time to put it out at the curb for dumping and disposal, so as to cleanse the public debate of its filth.