From: Adam <""4thwormcastfromthemolehill\"{at}the field.near
the bridge">

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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