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To: Elsewhere who wrote (75010)	2/17/2003 8:57:56 PM
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Action = reaction. If one country has managed to acquire WMD neighbors of similar power will strive for them as well. Have a look at Pakistan and India - they are a role model of the diplomatic fireworks we will experience if, for instance, Iraq threatens to invade Iran in the possibly not so distant future. Sorry, I am unclear on your point. Are you saying that the possibility of Iraq becoming more aggressive towards it's neighbors will be offset by it's neighbors quickly acquiring nukes? If that is the road the French and Germans would like to travel - perhaps we should just give Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, and Kuwait their own nuclear weapons for Christmas next year (probably cheaper than a conventional war would cost)? I said originally... "If Iraq had nuclear capability and invaded Kuwait or Saudi Arabia - France and Germany would take a pass. As would, most likely, the rest of the world (including the US)."... You were holding that the coalition of 91 would replay (even bigger)... Schroeder's political grandfathers explicitly opposed the rearming of Germany and the founding of the Bundeswehr because they were afraid of fixing the German division forever. A Stalin offer was floating of a reunification at the price of a demilitarized Germany. Adenauer declined then, and he proved to be right. It was a joke. Stalin's offer was not genuine... Perhaps Adenauer declined because he suspected this and was proven right by the Soviet's "treatment" of Eastern Europe in the following years. Not sure if those bases would have been removed in West Germany either less than a decade after the end of WW2...