From: "Gary Britt" 

Is that story supposed to impress me?

Gary

"Don Hills"  wrote in message
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> In article , "Gary Britt"

wrote:
> >Well then I'm a crybaby with the most powerful military in the world.
> >Whereas, New Zealand would have trouble defeating the boy scouts of
Texas.
>
> We're soooo scared... in fact, so scared that about 30 years ago we told
you
> that your warships weren't welcome in our waters any more if they were
> nuclear powered or carried nuclear weapons. You haven't been able to visit
> here since(*). Maybe no big deal from your point of view, and the US has
> certainly imposed many sanctions on us as a result, but we've accepted
that
> as the price of being able to live with ourselves.
>
>
> (*)US Navy policy is to neither confirm nor deny that any given vessel is
> nuclear powered or nuclear armed. It's a valid policy, it just means that
> since the USN won't say that any given vessel is nuclear free, it cannot
> visit.
>
> --
> Don Hills    (dmhills at attglobaldotnet)     Wellington, New Zealand
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