> RoMunn wrote: > So to recap, you are advocating dissolving NATO Nobody has attacked a NATO ally so it's a non-issue. As to whether NATO is a useful alliance in the 21st century I'm not sure so I can't advocate one way or another.
I'd need to hear from the JCS, JIS, as well as State and others before I'd make that call and since I'm not President that's not going to happen. Like I said, Russia's 'signaling effect' is crystal clear: "get the fuck out of our neighborhood" and I don't blame them; we don't want them in ours. I can't think of a better reason for the State Department than situations like these so, knowing what I know, I'd probably have my top diplomats on a sleep over with Medvedev and Putin. But other things I might do would be: * Have Poland, Ukraine, Georgia, and elsewhere crawling with covert agents. * Have the JCS draw up various contingency plans * Pull troops out of Iraq* *Since it appears there's a plan in place I'd accelerate that to see what happens. For example, I'd pull down 50% faster than socialized and see who noticed and what they did about it. How's that? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;203748912;27390454;j Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:266384 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
