tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10820485.post114833195976307151..comments2023-11-03T09:36:22.100-04:00Comments on In From the Cold: Protecting EuropeGeorge Smileyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07049707648660651119noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10820485.post-1148389802335318542006-05-23T09:10:00.000-04:002006-05-23T09:10:00.000-04:00Victor Davis Hanson on why America should not let ...<A HREF="http://mannyishere.blogspot.com/2006/05/be-careful-what-you-wish-for.html" REL="nofollow">Victor Davis Hanson</A> on why America should not let the world have their cake and eat it to.Manny Chttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13697873572840995700noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10820485.post-1148347577549624972006-05-22T21:26:00.000-04:002006-05-22T21:26:00.000-04:00My humble solution: provide the shield, but requir...My humble solution: provide the shield, but require UNSC approval before using it to shoot down missiles aimed at Germany, France, etc.<BR/><BR/>For UK, Denmark, Poland and other coalition partners, there would be no need for UNSC approval.<BR/><BR/>Even if it is not possible to do this, I'd still announce it to the world media - see what happens!Red Ahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10699964464336470134noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10820485.post-1148346624203365902006-05-22T21:10:00.000-04:002006-05-22T21:10:00.000-04:00oops...ATF = Agreed-to FrameworkAlso: a link to th...oops...ATF = Agreed-to Framework<BR/><BR/>Also: a link to the <A _BLANK HREF="http://www.brook.edu/FP/PROJECTS/NUCWCOST/WEAPONS.HTM" REL="nofollow">Brookings Institution</A> study I mentioned earlierWanderlusthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06552045133035246679noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10820485.post-1148346312890131712006-05-22T21:05:00.000-04:002006-05-22T21:05:00.000-04:00Looks more and more like the House of Howard (Aust...Looks more and more like the House of Howard (Australia) is the place to live.<BR/><BR/>Personally I am so fed up with Euroweenie waffling and Democratic "the Anti-Republican" lines of political strategizing that I hope the following things happen in the next decade:<BR/><BR/>* Hillary becomes POTUS after 2008;<BR/><BR/>* She and the EU-3 do an "ATF-II" agreement with both PRNK and Iran;<BR/><BR/>* Europe rejects a US-based missile shield as being evidence of "warmongering"; and<BR/><BR/>* Ahmadinejad just continues to be himself.<BR/><BR/>Meanwhile, I'll continue to follow the advice of a US consulate officer here in NZ that I received a couple years ago: "you can't have too many passports". If all those things become reality, I don't want to be living anywhere near major population centers in the Northern Hemisphere come 2010.<BR/><BR/>p.s.: the Savannah River Site (SRS) has published a wonderful historical overview of their history, titled "SRS at 50" (it's several hundred pages long, available for free on their website as a PDF document, broken down into individual chapters). I note that in this book, attention is given to the predictions featured in major media outlets back in 1946 that the USSR would be "several years" away from testing its own nuclear bomb. At the time, popular wisdom suggested the USSR wouldn't "have the Bomb" until at least 1953 - seven years later.<BR/><BR/>Yet a decent student of political history post-WWII can recall what happened only three years later, in 1949, thanks in no small part to the efforts of the Rosenbergs and Klaus Fuchs (and perhaps supported as well by Alger Hiss). In only three years, the USSR successfully tested its own atomic bomb. This test was perhaps the single most visible event that resulted in the Cold War. According to the Brookings Institution, US expenditures alone in fighting the Cold War (1940 - 2000) on the nuclear side alone exceeded <B>$5.5 trillion dollars</B>.<BR/><BR/>My point: anyone who is "betting the farm" that Iran (or any of the quasi-government groups such as Islamic Jihad or Muslim Brotherhood) won't "have the Bomb" for many years yet risks being proven wrong, and history is not on their side.Wanderlusthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06552045133035246679noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10820485.post-1148346219247379672006-05-22T21:03:00.000-04:002006-05-22T21:03:00.000-04:00A rhetorical question:Should Europe accept the US'...A rhetorical question:<BR/><BR/>Should Europe accept the US's offer with respect to a missile shield, would that be an implicit admission that Iran poses a threat?usually mellowhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16684212852170769805noreply@blogger.com