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To: kech who wrote (159300)	2/28/2006 1:37:59 AM
From: Maurice Winn	Respond to of 794011

I think NZ was in pretty early, but don't know for sure. Bear in mind that NZ is 4 million low GDP per capita people, so the USA would, for equivalence by population, supply 80 x as many which would be 4,000. Keep in mind that NZ really has no strategic interest in Aghanistan and the USA is the one in the war with Al Qaeda through huge support of Israel, which has not exactly been a friendly state to NZ, and neither has the USA for that matter - see the restrictions on selling steel and sheep to the USA, it certainly cleared up the state of the 'friendship'. Not that NZ is a pure free trader either, restrictive little place that it is. France is 50 million people, full of Moslems, and not far away from the Islamic Jihad scene, so it has a substantial strategic interest in Afghanistan too. There is no reason at all for NZ to support France because France conducted the only terrorist operation in NZ. They are worse than Al Qaeda at targeting New Zealand. It's only NZ's determined appreciation of civilization that gets NZers out there taking part. It is certainly not in appreciation of the non-existent protection of New Zealand's interests by Britain, France, USA. If there has been protection, it has been only coincidental. You cannot show anywhere - "Dang those Kiwis need support. Let's swing in behind them. They've been in WWI, WWII, Vietnam, Malaysia, East Timor, Boer War with nothing to be got out of it except a load of corpses, buried in some distant foreign field." Mqurice