Saturday, October 02, 2004
A zloty for your thoughts
The blogosphere's most famous Polish-Australian translates umbrage from his native land. Polish President Aleksander Kwasniewski:
Considering all the insults that he has hurled, John Kerry's plan to get our allies to shoulder more than 10% of the casualties and 10% of the cost -- as if that were an important strategic objective -- is looking a little tattered. In any case, it is increasingly clear that John Kerry is just one of those people who disrespects the friends of America and reveres the countries that work against us at every opportunity. Unfortunately, there are a great many people around the world who share that view, probably more than the opposite.
UPDATED: To correct a fatal drafting error (identified helpfully by Mrs. TigerHawk).
It's sad that a Senator with twenty years of experience does not appreciate Polish sacrifice... I don't think it's a question of ignorance. One thing has to be said very clearly: this Coalition is not just the United States, Great Britain and Australia, but there's also contribution of Polish, Ukrainian, Bulgarian and Spanish soldiers who died in Iraq. It's immoral to not see this involvement we undertook because we believe that we have to fight terrorism together, that we need to show international solidarity, that Saddam Hussein is a danger to the world.
From such a perspective, you can say we are disappointed that our stance and the sacrifice of our soldiers is so marginalised. I blame it on electioneering - and a message, indirectly expressed by Senator Kerry - that he thinks more of a coalition that would put the United States together with France and Germany, that is those who in the matter of Iraq said 'no'.
President Bush is behaving like a true Texan gentleman - he's fighting for the recognition of other countries' contribution in the Coalition.
Considering all the insults that he has hurled, John Kerry's plan to get our allies to shoulder more than 10% of the casualties and 10% of the cost -- as if that were an important strategic objective -- is looking a little tattered. In any case, it is increasingly clear that John Kerry is just one of those people who disrespects the friends of America and reveres the countries that work against us at every opportunity. Unfortunately, there are a great many people around the world who share that view, probably more than the opposite.
UPDATED: To correct a fatal drafting error (identified helpfully by Mrs. TigerHawk).
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