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Originally posted by Stroggy@Jun 19 2005, 11:39 PM
Last belgian elections our previous Foreign Minister was booted from his post (he was the one that caused a political fallout between the US and Belgium) and when the US stated it was grateful the Belgian government had decided to assign someone else to the post Belgians were seething, politicians and civilians were saying that the US has no right to say if they agree or disagree with whome Belgians elected... but hold on, that is exactly what European politicians and civilians did when the Republicans won!
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You're right that foregners should have no influence on domestic politcs...
But just remember Heider in Austria - and how Europe protested (now would you really like to se a heimatdienst - read neonazi - to gain so much power).
Also there is one other great difference - Belgia won't be sending their armed forces all over the world and start wars over imaginative weapons of mass destruction (US did). So as long as US is so deeply involved in all the international affairs it is only too understandable that so many people outside the US are concerned about who is in charge of their armed forces.
Honestly - were it Greenland (and I don't want to offend any Greenlanders) I woulnd't give a rat's behind whom they vote for their president.
But I do care with countries such as US, Russia, Britain, France... because those countries are internationally involved and their presidents have different status in teh world then let's say the president of Samoa (do they even have a president - I don't feel like checking if they are a republic or monarchy, or...)