From: "Adam Flinton" 


"Geo."  wrote in message
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> "Adam Flinton"  wrote in message
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> > Possibly so. Never the less we've gone from secret little places & slow
> > development back into big places & full on weapons grade material
> > production.
>
> What makes you think there has been any change? From what I can see it
looks
> to me like nothing changed except now they are trying to use the fact that
> it's happening to get some kind of concessions or something. I'm not
really
> sure what they expect to accomplish other than being a distraction during
> the Iraq thing.
>

I think the only people using it as a linked distraction are in the US.
Heck there is a general strike in Venezuela...maybe the Venezuelans are
also kicking off because it's during the run up to Iraq too. After all
.....major non Mid East oil producer......not producing ....

> You made a comment about NK being a problem for China, Russia and possibly
> Japan more so than to the US. I happen to agree with that assesment but
only
> until they start selling nuclear weapons to others. (like iraq)
>

When did they do that? & Anyway why no similar outrage over France
doing the same wrt Israel?

Why wasn't that a major proliferation problem?

> > If developing nukes is a "sign of evil" then  the 5
permenant members of
> the
> > security council must be the "Quintet of evil".
>
> Weapons are not evil, people are evil.
>

ROFL. & People are people are people. i.e. you've got the same % of
evil people as anywhere else as have we.

What the current admin seems to be saying though is that pursuit of a nuke
capability is per se a sign of evil in which case....the Perm 5, India,
Pakistan & Israel are all definitely, irrevocably evil.

Personally I loath the injection of morality into International politics as
it's about power pure & simple. Are you too big to take on? If so go do
what you like. If small enough to push around then we will unless you've
got "Big friends".

Adam

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