Our anger at the Europukes
From Mr John King Sir: Neil Clark's article (It's not the Yanks who are dumb', 7 September) was interesting, well balanced and timely. Over the past few months there has been a growing EU chorus of endless US-bashing, and these complaints are being given increasing coverage in the US Internet media. The consequence of this is that more and more Americans are angry with the US-bashers, calling them names such as 'Europukes'. I would not be surprised to see many who wish us to pull out of Nato. Let the EU worry about EU military problems. I am one of this group who wishes to see us leave Nato, and I spent 18 months in Nato — drafted.
One reason for EU complaints is probably just simple envy of the US being the only surviving world power. The US has enough economic and military clout not to have to take EU carping seriously. Many European countries have the delusional idea that wisdom from the older societies of Europe should prevail over simple and naive American opinion. In my view they have been wrong all too often. How many Americans have died to save EU members from their own folly?
Regarding our problems with Iraq, there is no easy solution. If we delay, Saddam Hussein will accumulate more weapons of mass destruction, and he is certainly willing to use them. He murdered 20,000 (trial run in 1980) of his own people with chemical weapons, he had wars with Iran and he invaded Kuwait. We can't wait for him to develop an atomic bomb and take out New York City. He's insane. Bill Clinton waited and watched as a US navy ship almost sunk in Aden; he saw the US air force residences bombed in Saudi Arabia and two US embassies bombed in Africa. He did nothing and it only encouraged further attacks. The New York attack cost us more than 3,000 deaths of innocent people and a loss of $95 billion.
John King
Eugene, Oregon, USA
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