Re: US Isolationism RE: US at war in 1940?1942? L3

[John D. Giorgis]

At 02:22 PM 6/14/01 +1000 Russell Chapman wrote:
>(In Australia our biggest concern with the new proposals is that defence
spending
>will be directed at protecting North America at the expense of existing
strategic
>forces which are a big component of the ANZUS defence pact - an
understandable
>position for a North American country, but not good news for us... 

The good news for you guys is that the rumours leaking out of major defence
review right now, suggest that it will be recommended that the US pull a
large number of forces out of Europe, and begin to devote significant
resources to planning on having to defend our allies in Asia over the short
-to-medium term.

>The same
>concerns may well apply to European NATO members)

The US has always said that we want the missile shield to cover all NATO
members.   I don't know about Australia and NZ - but I'm guessing that we
won't have the resources to do it, at least at first.

JDG
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