Like it or not we in Europe stand shoulder to shoulder with the United States. Much of the defence of Europe, through NATO, comes from the U.S.A. I make this statement because I was rather alarmed this week when various people talked of the September 11 attacks in New York and Washington as if they were in some distant country which had nothing to do with us in Europe. Well, I believe they are mistaken. Yes, the United States is a long way from us but it is also the centre point of the western world, which we form part of. Al Qaeda was allegedly going to attack U.S. and British warships in the Straits of Gibraltar, which is at our back door. The Spanish Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar, is a close ally of George W. Bush and he has announced that he would support strikes on Iraq with or without the support of the United Nations. We should stand together with the United States because at the end of the day, they were there for us in our hour of need.
Hands across the ocean
12/09/2002 00:00
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