>See my other post, we don't need overcome them militarily. They have to >fight us and their own population. They can't do it.
I am not so sure of that. >Do you seriously think there is any chance Iran is telling the truth? I agree that there's a significant likelihood they are lying. The >odds are zero and zero. They must have the bomb, they see it as the only way >to preserve their crumbling internal power structure and stave off regime >change. We have been down the road of supervision, it doesn't work. Says who? They don't seem to be going anywhere, and what supervision are we talking about? >I heard from an Indian diplomat in DC that the day after India tested a >nuke, the entire Indian diplomatic staff in DC got called to the State >Department and the big cheeses just sat them in a room and stared at them in >stony silence for twenty minutes. After that day, relations with India >basically went to zero for two years, and only recently have they started to >warm up again. At least India is a democracy. As for Pakistan, we have just >faced the reality that they have the bomb. But they are not so stable, and >because of that, the US military has plans in place to stage commando raids >on their nuclear weapons facilities if there is a coup by fundamentalists. I will assume the above is correct, as I don't know otherwise, but it doesn't change anything I said. >On Dubai, I realize a huge majority opposes the deal, but Dubai is home to >the largest presence of US military ships in the world. They are our >friends. I respect Michael's disagreement with the policy on the grounds of >their support for the Israeli boycott, but for most of the US population, >this just seems like a knee-jerk reaction that has no basis in sound >thinking. And come on, the Bushes don't have anything riding on the Dubai >deal, that's just Oliver Stone-esque paranoia. Maybe it is, but the given explanation makes no sense. Can't discriminate? What about making Arab men register, what about detaining them without legal recourse? We have a situation in which two unstable countries are pursuing nuclear weapons, and we give one out blessing but not the other, which happens to be Muslim? Dubai is our ally, sure, so is Pakistan. I am not so sure it's a knee-jerk response. One of the core concerns about globalization is the outsourcing of key competencies. This seems to be a case in point. If we don't have an American company that can do this perhaps we should grow one. I realize that we are not talking about security, but this deal would have allowed a foreign country huge amounts of information about known vulnerabilities, and while the country is at least nominally an ally, these things have been known to change. I think the security concerns are well-taken. Dana > > >On 3/11/06, Dana Tierney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:5:199683 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:5 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
