or would you care to show some intelligence on this site?
If you look around, you just might discern that Yurp has progressed mightily since the days of King Leopold. Unlike the land where "wise latinas" stir up opposition, and black presidents are "undocumented."
you couldn't half snark if your... say, how often have you been in Nepal anyway? "Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage." - Anaïs Nin
Europe has progressed a lot, as has America and the rest of the world. But the Yugoslav disaster was a European calamity too reminiscent of its recent past to go away believing that a return to those rivalries is not just a few misunderstandings away.
My point, however, was not that Europe is barbaric, but that it takes a Prince to govern effectively there as it does anywhere else. A weak but saintly EU president would likely spell disaster. And it is all the more so given that it is not popular support but institutional support that matters in that office.
...but that it takes a Prince to govern effectively there as it does anywhere else.
Perhaps it does take a Prince for people like yourself, though I doubt even that. Never underestimate their intelligence, always underestimate their knowledge.
Frank Delaney ~ Ireland
