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Remember your Heinlein: "This sad little lizard told me that he was a brontosaurus on his mother’s side. I did not laugh; people who boast of ancestry often have little else to sustain them. Humoring them costs nothing and adds to happiness in a world in which happiness is always in short supply." from the Notebooks of Lazarus Long .
--Pete
OK let's talk about our support of the US in Afghanistan (present). We are one of the biggest contributors of troops despite our size. But actually, I must agree with Occhi, that might be due to the cowardness of especially our current (christian) prime minister who is easily impressed whenever he gets chance to meet the big cheese in the white house. (in Holland some people called him Bush' lap dog....he isn't very loyal though he is good friend swith Obama as well).
Now he quickly added that we want to take up prisoners from Guantanamo Bay (even though the parliament didn't want). And as an ultimate act of cowardness (I am agreeing more an more with Occhi) he didn't even talk about the decission of the Bush administration to invade the Netherlands if an american soldier would be put on trial for war crimes in the Hague. (always nice when you help an ally out to know that if you dare to say something about a soldier raping or torturing civilians he will invade your country).
Anyway, I apologize...we are a nation of cowards.