Countering asia: a transatlantic free-trade-zone

[Skybird]

http://www.spiegel.de/international/...443306,00.html

And while there may be plenty of reasons to oppose US President George W. Bush, there are few reasons to be against America.

Worth to think about, but internal friction and massive conflicts would almost be guaranteed, probably at higher intensitiy than it already is the case within NATO..

It is a bit ironic, but since some weeks I read (again) the online edition of "Der Spiegel" regularly: usually it is considered in Germany to be a magazine that tends a bit to the left wing of the political spectrum, and being uplinked to the SPD. But many essays I have red in these past weeks were much tougher and daunting and confronting in style when it came to reforms, economics, terror, immigration and Islam than everything I read in the online editions of the major daily newspapers of the centrist and conservative newspapers in Germany.

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-dont ask.

[TteFAboB]

I don't have time to read that article right now but if left for politicians to work it out it would never become a reality. Reason? Look at the free-zones out there and their internal problems. One Lobby will inevitably pull the government to their side, so the other side pulls their government to their side and then it's no longer a free-trade zone but a lobby-block[tr]ade zone.

I don't know why the Spiegel would suggest that though. I'd like you, Skybird, to let us know of the mail they receive from this. Certainly they've just lost a few subscribers unless they are playing "neutral" and there's another article on the other page suggesting to impose a full barrier on all American trade.

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nuke em

[Skybird]

Originally Posted by TteFAboB

I don't have time to read that article right now but if left for politicians to work it out it would never become a reality. Reason? Look at the free-zones out there and their internal problems. One Lobby will inevitably pull the government to their side, so the other side pulls their government to their side and then it's no longer a free-trade zone but a lobby-block[tr]ade zone.

I don't know why the Spiegel would suggest that though. I'd like you, Skybird, to let us know of the mail they receive from this. Certainly they've just lost a few subscribers unless they are playing "neutral" and there's another article on the other page suggesting to impose a full barrier on all American trade.

It is another excerpt from that book that they currently quote in a series of articles.

http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=99696

This essay has been excerpted from "War for Wealth: The Global Grab for Power and Prosperity", Germany's best- selling book by Gabor Steingart. SPIEGEL ONLINE is publishing a series of excerpts from the book in English.

The book definitely is meant as an alarm call and a provocation for too old and already overtaken thinking dogmas on economy and globalisation. Think I will buy and read that complete book sooner or later. Gabor Steingart also is author of the Germn bestseller "Der Fall Deutschland. Abstieg eines Superstars"