----- Original Message ----- From: "Gary Denton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Killer Bs Discussion" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, June 15, 2004 3:27 AM Subject: Re: Request for Proposals
> On Mon, 14 Jun 2004 23:01:50 -0400, JDG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > At 11:29 PM 6/14/2004 -0230 Nick Lidster wrote: > > >I tend to agree with Gary on this one, Iran would back away rather quickly > > >if a coalition said to pack up the reactor and go home. > > > > Uh.... what do you think the world is doing RE; Iran and DPRK right now, > > and what do you see Iran and DPRK doing in response? > > > > JDG > > Just my opinion but some seem awfully quick to pull the trigger there. > Has Iraq taught any of the neo-cons or proto-neo-cons anything? Other > than I see draft measures are about to go in place next year if Bush > is reelected. > > BTW, we won the Cold War, we are the Masters of the world. Our > military budget is officially now 47% of the worlds, and that doesn't > include some off -budget items that should be included. Other than > giving some people twitchy fingers and delusions of grandeur what does > having no enemy in the world being one tenth as strong as us done? It has allowed us to be a lot firmer with right wing dictatorships that are in our sphere of influence. If you look at the Latin American governments during and after the Cold War, you will see a remarkable shift in the type of governments. Right wing dictatorships lost the leverage of "do you want Communists instead of us?" The one military intervention in Latin America during this time ended up very successful. There is now a representative government in Panama; superior to both Noreaga (sp) for both the US and the people of Panama. Dan M. _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
