"John D. Giorgis" wrote:
> Pretty obvious to me that the rest of the world has been impoverished by
> corrupt governments, and is not nearly using their fair share of energy.
Yeah - right - Western Europe, Scandinavia, Australasia (not that we're
particularly energy efficient either), those hotbeds of impoverished, corrupt
countries. Jeez...
>
> This suggests that you have a profoun misunderstanding of the mechanics of
> delivering nuclear weapons. First, how many of those drugs are coming
> from the Middle East and Asia? More importantly, if smuggling is such a
> cheap and efficient way of delivering a nuclear weapon, *WHY* are all the
> rogue states on the planet vigorously pursuing more and better missiles?
(snip)
> This is, of course, as opposed to the current situation, where Iraq, Iran,
> Pakistan, the DPRK, etc. have absolutely no desire to pursue nuclear-tipped
> ballistic missiles. Yeah, triggering an arms race is a real risk here.
>
They are pursuing missiles they can lob into their neighbouring enemies - Israel,
Taiwan, South Korea, India & Pakistan need defence against the above ballistic
missiles. Americas enemies, many of whom are not even sovereign states, are
unlikely to ever have hemisphere crossing missile capability, but they can all
ship something to Mexico and slip it or ship it over the border from there.
Incidentally, I'd be very surprised if a very large proportion of your drug
imports don't come from SE Asia.
Heroin statistics alone give a good idea...
Year Mex SEA SWA SAm
1994 5 57 6 32
1995 5 17 16 62
1996 20 8 20 52
1997 12 8 7 73
1998 17 14 4 65
OK - South West Asia isn't the middle east, but you get the idea. It certainly
covers the sub-continent.
Russell Chapman
Brisbane Australia
