Boycott France & Germany?

A reader writes again:

I would like to propose to Americans that we boycott consumer goods of those nations who oppose us in the upcoming Iraq War.

I, for one, have decided to buy no goods made in China unless I'm unable to find a replacement made elsewhere and the item is needed. Inexpensive household products such as dishes, place mats, etc. are increasingly imported from China. I hardly find any such items in Wal-Mart, for instance, that aren't imported from China. When we buy from China, we pour our money into their war machine so that they can create more missles to point at us, Taiwan, Japan.

We don't have to worry about goods from Russia -- I don't think that they make anything Americans would want.

We can live without French and German products too. Buy Italian wines instead of French; travel to England, Spain, the Netherlands, Denmark, Poland, the Baltic countries. Better yet, travel in the beautiful and vast US!

Let's begin to support workers and governments that take our side. Buy from Taiwan, the Phillipines, the small American countries, Mexico, etc.

I don't know that I would support a boycott of a country's businesses when I have a complaint with that country's government. For all I know, the French vintner I would not be buying from is furious about his government's position. (Okay. Okay. That's a very unlikely example. But you get the drift.)

I do support, however, rearranging the UN situation, for instance: why, exactly, should the Cheese Eating Surrender Monkeys now have a permanent seat, with veto, on the Security Council? And I support realignment of our troops: Poland and Czechoslovakia, I understand, would love to host the troops we station now in Germany. I think we should go for it.

Lane Core Jr. CIW P — Fri. 02/14/03 07:49:01 AM
Categorized as Political.