Monday, November 16, 2009

Italy Calls for Creation of European Army!



War, what it is good for! Absolutely, nothing! Enjoy Edwin Starr's video above.

Not according to the Italian Foreign Minister who wants the European Union to create a European Army! I guess if the European Union is going to be a pseudo United States of Europe, it should have its own military! Not! This is just a furtherance of the military industrial complex, but this time as a part of the European Union.

It was a "necessary objective to have a European army", Mr. Franco Frattini, the Italian Foreign Minister said. "Take Afghanistan: at present President Obama asks Poland, or Italy, or Great Britain for more troops. If there were a European army, he would have a 'toolbox' to draw from. He might need 30 aeroplanes: he would be able to ask if the European army was in a position to provide them."

I don't buy it. The European Union does not need to form a European Army to determine how to allocate the respective member countries' troops into the battlefields. That could be accomplished through multi-party and country agreements. Earlier in the article, Frattini does indeed say that Europe faces irrelevancy if it does not create this new army.

Source: London Times Online



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