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Re: The beginning of the end of NATO?
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Thu, 13 Feb 2003 02:18:42 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Bruce Schlickbernd writes:
> France not been even a half-hearted backer of NATO for a long time now. I
> don't expect much out of France (they are still sulking over our not backing
> them in Viet Nam).
Ya. I for one would LOVE to see some real investigative reporting into the
theory that France is blocking things because they have lots and lots of
business deals in the hopper that would go forward if sanctions are
eventually lifted but which will be shot if there's a new regime...
(sort of a twist on "blood for oil"... in this case the blood is that of
Saddam's victims)
But since that theory, if true, would gore some sacred cows, we won't see it
in the New York Times, I bet.
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| (...) East to say, but harder to justify. (...) None of that explains why Belgium and Germany share France's outlook. Nor does it explain why the French navy is currently on exercise with your own in the "Eastern Mediterranean". (...) I'm sure I've (...) (22 years ago, 13-Feb-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| (...) Fomenting a war between Turkay and Iraq and then demanding that everyone aid in the war that they opposed being started in the first place will not be a feather in Bush's cap. All he will do is drive a wedge between us and the rest of NATO, (...) (22 years ago, 12-Feb-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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