[amilcarkabral]

You missed my point. The reason that the Euro was possible was because the countries came from a common culture: Europeanism or whatever. Most of them share the common ancestor languages of greek and latin. You'll see how this plays out in that Turkey, which is geographically close to them, almost as integrated economically, and since the 60's or so very 'westernized' politically but religiously it is an Islamic country. The EU is saying no to them because they don't have the cultural ancestry as the rest of Europe.

What will be interesting is how Russia fits. It is technically Asian, but has lots of attention in the western portion of it so many people consider it European (except for those of us who actually look at maps and realize that Europe is really the far western dingleberry of the Asian continent) though culturally Russia is rather unique. I don't think that Euramerica pays enough attention to Russia's dealings with China and Asia, because they are fools.

In terms of Nafta and Cafta, you're not realizing that economic integration is far different from free trade. The upper echelons of Corporate America have no intention of 'integrating' our economy with that of Mexico and Canada that is any different from the 'integration' that blacks were subjected to during the 60's and today. All they did is knock down the barriers for multi-national companies to swing their weight around in new territories.