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Old 06-15-2004, 10:01 AM   #5
Timber Loftis
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Join Date: July 11, 2002
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People across Europe have probably felt that they haven't been completely involved in the decision making processes in Brussels and feel the EU is just a bunch of bureaucrats telling them what to do.
Welcome to a federal system. Part and parcel of the territory. People in New Mexico will always wonder how someone in Washington D.C. can know what's best for them.

Black Baron, that's an exceedingly naive sentiment. The trend is, and will be, toward more globalism, more unification of nations through systems, mechanisms, and agreements. If the EU is gone in several decades, it will only be because there is some larger structure unifying nations.

I know Israel would like to believe the world would stay fractured and bifrocated forever -- that way Israel could keep playing it's "spoiled brat" "I do what I want" schtick forever, but that ain't how it is. Like it or not, you guys will get dragged kicking and screaming into some sort of system where you actually have to learn how to "play pretty" with the other schoolyard kids. Mark my words.
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