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mandragoraI've just been listening to the 'Today' programme on BBC Radio 4, which is the most listened to current affairs morning programme in the UK.
US Republican Congressman Pete King was interviewed in relation to the row over Nato and reinforcements to Turkey. France, Germany (sort of) and Belgium have vetoed military reinforcements to Turkey. And Congressman King's response was to dismiss France and Germany as being 'inconsequential'.
Leading to me going WTF!
He considered countries such as *cough* Lithuania to be of more importance in Europe than France and Germany. The world's fifth and third (second?) largest economies respectively.
Uh, yeah. Right. Whatever.
Why, he said, France doesn't even have a single aircraft hangar. Which is, quite simply, wrong.
I don't know who this Pete King is, but I'm really glad he's not an elected politician in my country.
Oh, if anyone reading this has any idea why the formatting on my 'friends' page went wonky last night and now is too large for my screen horizontally, I'd be really grateful for pointers on how to fix it.
Edited, because I wrote that the name of the Congressman was Mike King, when in fact it's Pete King - didn't want to defame any Congressman Mike King out there
US Republican Congressman Pete King was interviewed in relation to the row over Nato and reinforcements to Turkey. France, Germany (sort of) and Belgium have vetoed military reinforcements to Turkey. And Congressman King's response was to dismiss France and Germany as being 'inconsequential'.
Leading to me going WTF!
He considered countries such as *cough* Lithuania to be of more importance in Europe than France and Germany. The world's fifth and third (second?) largest economies respectively.
Uh, yeah. Right. Whatever.
Why, he said, France doesn't even have a single aircraft hangar. Which is, quite simply, wrong.
I don't know who this Pete King is, but I'm really glad he's not an elected politician in my country.
Oh, if anyone reading this has any idea why the formatting on my 'friends' page went wonky last night and now is too large for my screen horizontally, I'd be really grateful for pointers on how to fix it.
Edited, because I wrote that the name of the Congressman was Mike King, when in fact it's Pete King - didn't want to defame any Congressman Mike King out there
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Date: 11 February 2003 13:34 (UTC)