the reality is will the UK, France, Germany adopt sanctions vs the USA over online gambling issues?
the public companies shouldn’t have folded out of the US market, they were legal in the UK. their reactions were premature. The UIGEA law was aimed at financial companies, teh ramifications to online gambling operators was (even to this point) not clear.
All good points. The US will continue to further isolate itself from the world. As I mentioned in another post, with Blair’s imminent departure, the UK is now being more vocal against US policy (I expect full UK troop withdrawal from Iraq, upon Blair’s departure, for example). Similar to Americans, the UK citizens by and large have come to the conclusion that the impetus for going into, and the handling of the Iraq war, were miscalculated and botched, to say the least. I doubt that the UK will impose sanctions against the US over online gambling, BUT if the WTO, as a block, can rule against the US in other ways (e.g., trade issues with China), then maybe they can exert some influence. This remains to be seen, if they have the guts to do this. Otherwise, it’s “stay the course” for Bush and his cronies, regadless of WTO decisions or not….”we know best, and we will do what we feel is right, because we are right”. Inept morons !