sanscript: Contrary to popular myth - we're
not rich, but we do snake us in under the rugs of others just as a political strategy. You never know when these money will save some of our politicians later in life, as a returned favour. And look - our former prime minister is now the head of NATO, before that head of WHO ;-)
Pangaea666: That's not the same prime minister (just pointing it out for others), and Stoltenberg got the gig in NATO by "helpfully" destroying Libya on Clinton's "advice". Norway carried out an obscene amount of bombings, and as usual in these modern air superiority wars, we ran out of targets, so the standing order was "bomb whatever you feel like".
Country of peace, indeed.
And right now we are restructuring the military to join more of these wars in the future, and buying a crapton of new planes from the US. Oh, and new spy planes and submarines so we can spy on Russia for the US (coupled with the Globus II radar a stone-throw from the Russian border).
Would be nice if Norway had a foreign policy of its own. It doesn't. Not really.
Thanks for pointing that out. I should have been more clear on that.
The level of "friend-zone" is quite a sight for the elite. I bet Stolteberg's follower is doing all he can to be the next prime minister and get a fancy job himself when Norway is through with him.
Gro H. Brundtland --> WHO
Jens Stoltenberg --> NATO
I just heard "Jensman" on the radio talking about the ever good relations to America, and I still cringe whenever he speaks his pure norwegian "iingless" :-D
sanscript: You are reason as to why the world is laughing at americans, you constantly dig for something that's agreeable to your view, more interested in finding problems than solutions, and when "they" doesn't agree with you, you stop speaking and slam people with an imaginary stick...
You might lack the curriculum to actually understand what he meant, still, or understand what the scientific method is :p
Hint: Different views and arguing are just part of it.
Years_of_Chaos: Dude you are stupid.
Thanks, for writing it so eloquently and beautifully :p