At 10:01 27-9-01 -0700, John Giorgis wrote: >"Bush started his day with phone calls to Dutch Prime >Minister Wim Kok and President Nursultan Nazarbayev of >Kazakstan. Fleischer quoted Nazarbayev as telling Bush >that Kazakstan would support his anti-terrorism >coalition with all available means. > >Kok expressed Dutch solidarity with the effort "and >stressed that solidarity means deeds, not just words," >Fleischer said. The Egyptian foreign minister was >stopping by Wednesday afternoon to talk with Bush >about U.S.-Egyptian cooperation."
The leaders of the EU countries have also said that they believe the war against terrorism should be headed by the United Nations, not the United States. I wholeheartedly agree with them. It it is UN-lead, more countries might be willing to cooperate, and it would prevent the operation from turning from "war against terrorism" to "America getting revenge". European countries will be more inclined to provide troops to the UN than to the US. Supplying troops to the UN would mean supporting an international action; supplying troops for a US action might mean we end up doing America's dirty work. Jeroen _________________________________________________________________________ Wonderful World of Brin-L Website: http://go.to/brin-l
