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To: elmatador who wrote (50270)	5/21/2004 10:48:06 AM
From: RealMuLan	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74559

elmat, thanks for the insight. >>Besides that LATAM has not this awe people look to the US: WOW! You know, they tend to be more like myself. << That is good to know. I have a lady friend at school from Dominica Republic who thinks sort of like you<g> >>An dwe know the US is returning to its natural size of 15% of the global GNP and has to use more diplomats than soldiers, like verybody else. << I hope you are right, although I won't bet on this. I think the US will fight along the way, using troops not diplomats<ng> I read a couple of articles from the Internet on the US interest in the Strait of Malacca and want to send a couple of aircraft carriers there. Up to now Singapore is the only one agreed, who has no major control of the Strait. Indonesia and Malaysia all rejected. And another country next to the exit of the Strait is Myanmar. Needless to say the US hates its regime. So I read that under the name of “anti-terrorism”, in autumn 2003, the US sent some special troops to Thailand and Singapore, in preparing attacking Myanmar and regime change there (planning to transfer 4,000 troops from Iraq). China heard this, and took some measures, including sending more troops along the border, and built a couple of temporary small airports along the border. China also contacts the Myanmar army (which has recruited a couple of thousands retired but well-trained Chinese army soldiers/officers<g>) and Myanmar guerrillas (which was trained by China, also enrolled plenty of Chinese<g>), so all prepared for the US attack. Later the situation in Iraq has not been developing as the US planned, and the US also heard the preparation on Myanmar and China side, so the US withdrew its special troops from Thailand and Singapore. Don’t know this is true or not, but I won’t be surprised if it came out true<g>