"Negotiating strategies may have been the aim of the N.S.A. monitoring. Still a deal remains in the best interest of all participants."
-New York Times, July 3.
The bottom line is the bottom line! Get over it Europe, and you will, you know you will! You can't pass on a new trade deal with the US because the US bugged your embassies to steal your negotiating secrets. You won't leave money on the table, it's not in your best interest.
The pursuit of happiness, enshrined as a right in the American Declaration of Independence, very often is equivalent to "Show me the money!"
"Dwight Howard's Pursuit of Happiness Likely to Lead Him Out of Town."
-Los Angeles Times, July 4.
And it did. Dwight Howard's pursuit of happiness, like LeBron James' before him, led him to switch teams and leave $30 million on the table. As in Cleveland in July 2010 there is "shock, disbelief, anger" in Los Angeles today. And there will be shock, disbelief, and anger on the Editorial Board of The New York Times if the US bugging leads Angela Merkel and the Germans, and the French, Italians and the entire EU to decide that they don't want to "deal" with a people who pursue happiness like that.
-New York Times, July 3.
The bottom line is the bottom line! Get over it Europe, and you will, you know you will! You can't pass on a new trade deal with the US because the US bugged your embassies to steal your negotiating secrets. You won't leave money on the table, it's not in your best interest.
The pursuit of happiness, enshrined as a right in the American Declaration of Independence, very often is equivalent to "Show me the money!"
"Dwight Howard's Pursuit of Happiness Likely to Lead Him Out of Town."
-Los Angeles Times, July 4.
And it did. Dwight Howard's pursuit of happiness, like LeBron James' before him, led him to switch teams and leave $30 million on the table. As in Cleveland in July 2010 there is "shock, disbelief, anger" in Los Angeles today. And there will be shock, disbelief, and anger on the Editorial Board of The New York Times if the US bugging leads Angela Merkel and the Germans, and the French, Italians and the entire EU to decide that they don't want to "deal" with a people who pursue happiness like that.
