From: "Robert Comer" 

> That's easy - ever see the movie The Mouse That Roared?

Yep.

> Less overt attempts at extorting more aid from us have failed or been
unsatisfactory, so they figure to let us beat them up a bit
> then get their own mini-Marshall plan.

I would think that they were to proud for that.

> They're incredibly stupid to believe they need to go to these lengths
though - simply behaving in a rational civilized manner and
> losing all the tired old cold war rhetoric that pisses off the US public
would have been sufficient.  Unpissed off Americans are
> pretty generous, pissed off Americans aren't.

Definitely agree.

- Bob Comer



"Tony Ingenoso"  wrote in
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> That's easy - ever see the movie The Mouse That Roared?
>
> Less overt attempts at extorting more aid from us have failed or been
unsatisfactory, so they figure to let us beat them up a bit
> then get their own mini-Marshall plan.
>
> They're incredibly stupid to believe they need to go to these lengths
though - simply behaving in a rational civilized manner and
> losing all the tired old cold war rhetoric that pisses off the US public
would have been sufficient.  Unpissed off Americans are
> pretty generous, pissed off Americans aren't.
>
bobcomer{at}mindspring.com> wrote in message
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> > Now for the $64 question, why?
> >
I don't see them gaining anything from it.>
>
>
>

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