On (19 Feb 03) Rob McCart wrote to George Pope...
 RM> GP~(such is the way of Imperialist nations all throughout history!) :P
 RM>
 RM> This isn't 100 or 500 years ago though. The USA, like Japan, uses
 RM> buying power to replace military power. Noone complains when you
 RM> control other nations that way. The USA may be the 'biggest kid
 RM> on the block' but they can't take on the Whole block. The rest
 RM> of the world wouldn't sit back and watch them march in and take
 RM> over oil fields. If they could get away with that they would have
 RM> Stayed in Kuwait after rescuing them from Iraq last time, don't
 RM> you think?   B)

Not necessarily -- we don't know WHAT their ultimate game plan is with
tge Middle East -- maybe to just chip away at them, using them as a sort
of "beat the dog before the lion" example before the rest of the world?
(and/or maybe Desert Storm really was only about testing a few new
military 'toys'. . .) :P

I'm just afraid that their next test will involve a real-life use of
Neutron Bombs. . .:( (and we really have no idea how those will affect
the world in general!) :P

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