| Monday, August 5, 2002 |
21:12 - A little sanity...
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On the World Affairs Council call-in show on NPR tonight, they had a member of the Spanish Parliament-- by the name, I think of Gustavo Aristide-- talking about the war on terrorism and related topics. In response to one seemingly axe-grinding caller's question about what the European stance was on America's holding terrorism suspects in Guantanamo and so on, he concluded the show with a statement to the following effect:
I think the Europeans and the Americans actually see eye-to-eye in a lot of ways, in the war on terror; and we have a lot of respect for America and its policies, as we would have for any such democracy. After all, America is one of the world's oldest democracies; and as I often tell my European friends, just as we would not expect America to interfere in European affairs, we should not presume to interfere in the internal affairs of the United States. Mutual respect is of great importance here.
Wow. I hadn't realized there were such opinions as this in European politics. If this guy is representative at all of the Spanish political landscape, I'm very encouraged that at least Spain will be someone we can count on not to go nuts on us when everything starts exploding.
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