Belgium is set to give away in a land trade with the Netherlands territory it no longer wants because the Meuse River dividing the two nations has meandered, so that by land territory belonging to Belgium can no longer be reached as reported by the Associated Press/Stars and Stripes newspaper on 30th December 2015.
This matter is set to go before the Belgium parliament in 2016. As such this writer says if the Belgium government as a practical matter no longer wants this land, because they have to cross the Meuse River to reach it, why don’t they consider providing it or donating it to the United States government as an international peace park and American World War 2 monument so it may be based on sovereign soil of the United States as a thankful token for liberating Belgium during the Second World War. Wherein for the second time in the same century, thousands of Americans gave their last full measure of devotion before the altar of peace and democracy for the people of Belgium and occupied Europe. The U.S. government could assign the American Battle Monuments Commission administration and could serve as a testament of the friendship between the Belgium and the American people for generations to come based on American sovereign territory in the matter of this token land grant of approximately 15 football fields in size in the creation of an international monument peace park.
At which point it becomes obvious this would currently make the United States a continental European power that would offer opportunities for integration into the European Union (EU) and/or European Economic Area (EEA) which would offer incredible advantages for the future of European-American relations for many generations to come. The symbolic and practical value of this is such, this once in a lifetime opportunity should not be overlooked or dismissed out of hand, because symbolism is an important part of our history, culture, and future of the trans-Atlantic relationship.
