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...nominate Denmark's Prime Minister, Anders Fogh Rasmussen, for his handling of the cartoon affair. No amount of diplomatic pressure, economic boycotts or burned embassies would persuade him that limiting free press could have some noble outcome. Now, on issues of religious intolerance, we shall measure our leaders by the Rasmussen Resolve Scale. If they don't meet his standards, we will vote them away...
...Even before agreement is reached with Russia and China, the U.S., Britain and France will seek support from the remaining ten members of the Council - Argentina, Tanzania, Congo, Ghana, Denmark, Greece, Japan, Peru, Qatar and Slovakia. But absent any smoking-gun evidence of Iran maintaining a weapons program, and considering Washington's credibility problem after the Iraq WMD fiasco, the U.S. and its allies may struggle to maintain the momentum of efforts to turn up the heat on Tehran. Indeed, their best hope may lie in Iran rattling its own sabers so much that it actually alienates the two powers...
...against the will of most national governments, who are struggling with frail growth and mounting resentment of Europe. Oddly enough, the most successful countries in the “old” EU are those which do not belong to the Euro area: the United Kingdom, Sweden and Denmark. With huge costs and scarce benefits, the risk of a European disintegration has never been so high. In reality—and this was precisely the rationale of the monetary unification gamble—the Euro area is a single large economy, and, as such, needs proactive and cooperative macroeconomic policy...
...furor over the offensive cartoons originating from Denmark cannot be said to be unexpected. The caricatures are without a doubt condemnable and indeed tasteless, to say the least. For once, the West?especially Europe?is confronted with the need to re-examine its self-absorbed democratic culture, one that doesn't give a hoot about the sensibilities of others. Sunny Esho vInnsbruck, Austria...
...furor over the offensive cartoons originating from Denmark cannot be said to be unexpected. The caricatures are without a doubt condemnable and indeed tasteless, to say the least. For once, the West - especially Europe - is confronted with the need to re-examine its self-absorbed democratic culture, one that doesn't give a hoot about the sensibilities of others. Sunny Esho Innsbruck, Austria...