ken hanly wrote: > The drive by the U.S. to have Georgia and the Ukraine > to join NATO and of NATO to approve the U.S. missile > defence system in Eastern Europe will surely revive > the old Cold War against Russia. Is the U.S. > military-industrial complex hedging its bets in case > the America public gets tired of financing a war > against terror in hard times? Not that the U.S. public > so far shows much sign of worrying about war > entitlements versus welfare entitlements. But maybe a > new threat might nip any doubts in the bud.
don't you think that it's possible that the Cheney/Bush administration is a bit less foresighted in their perspective? couldn't it just be a matter of (a) their non-recovery from Cold War attitudes toward Russia and (b) their view that the US should rule the world, so that any country that deviates in any way from the US Party Line is a threat? (the larger the deviation, the larger the threat.) Then, the arousal of US public fear would be the result, not the main aim. Of course, the CBers would look on that result as a good thing. BTW, it may be good to let Georgia and Ukraine into NATO, since it might dilute the organization, making it even less coherent in its goals and important in world affairs. If I were Putin, I'd want Russia to join NATO. I'm surprised he hasn't started filling out the application. (Is it available on-line? ;-)) -- Jim Devine / "Segui il tuo corso, e lascia dir le genti." (Go your own way and let people talk.) -- Karl, paraphrasing Dante. _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
