barbarian_style
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Not sure if this is how you would like to start out with your foreign relations but this doesn't sound positive. Santorum has talked about things without having his fact straight and seems that the dutch are displeased about his some of his comments. He has made comments on how he would take care of Iran also which I viewed as not fully discerned. I believe that Santorum could cause stress to allied relations and further deteriorate stressed relations with other countries.
Rick Santorum comments on euthanasia in the Netherlands cause stir in Dutch media - Political Intelligence - A national political and campaign blog from The Boston Globe - Boston.com
Rick really good for America's foreign relations with other nations?
Earlier this month, Santorum brought up the subject at the American Heartland Forum with conservative leader James Dobson. “They have voluntary euthanasia in the Netherlands, but half the people who are euthanized every year, and it’s 10 percent of all deaths, half of those people are euthanized involuntarily in hospitals, because they are older and sick,” Santorum said. “So elderly people in the Netherlands don’t go to the hospital. They go to another country. Because they’re afraid because of budget purposes they will not come out of that hospital if they go in with sickness.” He said the Dutch wear bracelets saying “Don’t euthanize me.”
Since then, Dutch news sources have picked up the story – and reacted with outrage. “Rick Santorum Thinks He Knows the Netherlands: Murder of the Elderly on a Grand Scale,” read a headline in the daily newspaper NRC Handelsblad.
Rick Santorum comments on euthanasia in the Netherlands cause stir in Dutch media - Political Intelligence - A national political and campaign blog from The Boston Globe - Boston.com
Rick really good for America's foreign relations with other nations?
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