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The entire Foreign Affairs forum reads like the Stormfront message board. I fear for Ireland's future.
Looks like it's been subsumed into that of the EU, which seems to encapsulate a growing tide of racism and misoxeny.
The entire Foreign Affairs forum reads like the Stormfront message board. I fear for Ireland's future.
"In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way." —Attributed to FDR
Miso what? Is this a new Politically Correct term for xenophobia?Originally Posted by Al.
Regards...jmcc
What we have left will not be for this world very long. Though I wouldn't blame the EU for the weird freaks that stalk these boards....
Perhaps they are EUsians but they don't realise it yet.Still it is worrying to see the signs of the mistakes of the last century being repeated in this one.
Regards...jmcc
Oh great. One hour into a new year and the paranoid anti-EU sh1te from Al.
"Irish citizens . . . on ratification of the Treaty could be forced to become Euro soldiers." Sinn Féin claim on Maastricht in 'Democracy or Dependency' p.6. in 1992.
Well at least he is brief in his paranoia. Where's the heart wrenching anecdote about how you or someone you know has been affected by anti-EUsian sentiment? Happy New Year anyway and may you get an FG government this year.Oh great. One hour into a new year and the paranoid anti-EU sh1te from Al.
Regards...jmcc
Being a neutral and unimportant country, Ireland does not have it sown foreign policy really.
Oh yeah and I just gotz aborted by the EU. By a Gerry no less.
To live honestly, to hurt no one, to give every one his due.
When did we ever have our own foreign policy?
"Give us the future, we've had enough of YOUR past, Give us back our country, to live in, to grow in and to love..."
Only if you regard terms like "misogeny" as "politically correct" and prefer to say "gynophobia" instead. But "gynophobe" doesn't describe someone who hates women...
Simple really: where "xenophobia" means fear of foreigners, "misoxeny" means hatred of foreigners. (It's not a neologism; it's been in use AFAICS for years.)Unimportant? Is that Germany's new assessment of their vassal state to the west?
Neutral is inaccurate.Good question. Whose foreign policies have we adopted over the years as our own? A timeline might be handy...and saying so means that Ireland has never been independent at any time.
Last edited by Al.; 1st January 2010 at 07:24 AM.
"In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way." —Attributed to FDR
We've always had an independent foreign policy on the things that interest us - the Non-Proliferation Treaty, the Statute of Westminster, Northern Ireland, agricultural free trade, East Timor, etc.
But, we're a small country without much influence to expend and we've always had to be selective about which issues to fight hard for and which to go with the flow on.
We've no interest in the vast majority of global issues; how many Irish people care about the state of relations between the PRC and Taiwan?
It's to our advantage to co-ordinate our policies in such areas with countries that do care about them and share our moral values, especially since it significantly increases our leverage on the issues we're focussed on.
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