From: "John Beamish" 

And I took your "no mutual defence pacts since ..." to be a
reference to worldwide.  My bad.

On Sat, 17 Mar 2007 19:33:57 -0400, Adam field.near the bridge">
 wrote:

> John Beamish wrote:
>> 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
>>
>
> I was under the opinion that you were talking about the ME.
>
> However NATO is the only one remaining out of NATO, SEATO, and CENTO.
>
>
>
> Adam

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