From: "John Beamish" 

I thought NATO was a mutual defence pact.

On Sat, 17 Mar 2007 06:06:21 -0400, Adam field.near the bridge">
 wrote:

> John Beamish wrote:
>> My second sentence was rather poorly worded.  I'll try again:
>>
>> It's only regional for the first two nukes.  There are almost certainly
>> as many mutual defence pacts between middle East nations and the US or
>> Russia today as there were between European nations before WWI.  There's
>> a scene in, I believe, "Oh! What a lovely war" where the
mutual defence
>> pacts are brought into play as countries move about on a chessboard.
>>
>
> No mutual defence pacts since they all collapsed in the 50'es.
>
> Adam

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