This letter is in response to an article published in the Nov. 14 issue of the Daily Forty-Niner, titled “Student benefit from changes in Washington.”
Last week, we saw a German human rights group call for the arrest of former United States Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld for alleged human rights abuses at Abu Ghraib and in Haditha, Iraq among others.
As of now, a team of German lawyers are actually investigating this with a serious potential course of action. U.S. unilateralism in the iron grip of an extremely conservative (by Irish standards at least) Republican government caused, as you know, deep resentment of U.S. foreign policy here and across the European Union at large. The E.U. and U.S. relationship is beneficial to both unions economically, militarily and yes, at times, culturally.
With the two “Reds” now forced to lick their wounds in a lame-duck session until the new Congress is sworn in next year, Americans should hope (and pray, if that’s your thing) that the “Dems” hastily see this old, important and natural relationship as being key to restoring U.S. legitimacy in the world and restore it to its former, immovable glory.
– Mark Eiffe, Irish college student and former “foreign correspondent” for the Daily Forty-Niner
