Comment Re:USian intl arrogance could work _for_ us here.. (Score 1) 182
Humm...I don't get why people seem to think about "U.S. and the rest of the world" that often...it's not one big country (the U.S.) against another big country ("the rest of the world"), it's one country against many others.
First of all we have seen, that many countries - not only in the Arab world - are economically dependent of the U.S. and others are not. In fact that's probably what made the echoes to the USUK-Alliance so inconsistent.
Telling the U.S. to stick their patents where the sun don't shine would for many countries result in breaking treaties with the U.S - and not only with the U.S., as these treaties are multilateral. While the U.S. obviously doesn't care about international treaties - at least with Dubya as President - the U.S. can make _other_ countries care using economic measures. Though the damage the U.S. can do to countries differs, probably a large number of countries won't be game offending the U.S. by ignoring U.S.-patents.
I'm not a U.S. citizen and I'm rather pissed off by the rambo-like manners the U.S. shows in many international issues, yet when taking it realistically, the view "U.S. vs. the rest of the world" is just nonsense.
First of all we have seen, that many countries - not only in the Arab world - are economically dependent of the U.S. and others are not. In fact that's probably what made the echoes to the USUK-Alliance so inconsistent.
Telling the U.S. to stick their patents where the sun don't shine would for many countries result in breaking treaties with the U.S - and not only with the U.S., as these treaties are multilateral. While the U.S. obviously doesn't care about international treaties - at least with Dubya as President - the U.S. can make _other_ countries care using economic measures. Though the damage the U.S. can do to countries differs, probably a large number of countries won't be game offending the U.S. by ignoring U.S.-patents.
I'm not a U.S. citizen and I'm rather pissed off by the rambo-like manners the U.S. shows in many international issues, yet when taking it realistically, the view "U.S. vs. the rest of the world" is just nonsense.
