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Politics : Support the French! Viva Democracy! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Dale Baker who wrote (1463)	6/26/2003 7:42:28 AM
From: zonder	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 7834

You echo my thoughts. Very sad, indeed. One would hope humankind would have evolved past all this bickering by now, but I guess not. Will we ever, I wonder...

To: Dale Baker who wrote (1463)	6/26/2003 10:49:48 AM
From: 49thMIMOMander	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 7834

NATO only exists to be changed and reformed, maybe even under a real threath of becoming something with only member, USA., as well as the threath of starting another process of competing in who can spend more militarily. That is, this process has been going on for more than a decade, but it is probably unnecessary to prepare for the worst possibilities, USA tends to swing here and there with every other election. Ilmarinen That is, the "old european nations" who do not belong to NATO, have and are waiting for this NATO reform process to proceed much further, with the general consensus that there is yet no reason to decide to join. That is, NATO still exists manly for "keeping Russia out, Germany divided and USA in", although it recently changed more to "keeping europe divided"