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To: stockman_scott who wrote (182996)3/6/2006 7:15:51 AM
From: skinowski  Read Replies (3) | Respond to of 281500
 
turned his back on the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (dismissed, like reality-based thinking, as passé)

What in the world is Herbert talking about? Both India and Pakistan have been nuclear since a long time ago. Some people make it sound as if Bush gave them the green light just the other day. Speaking of "reality", all this talk is just silly politicking.

India tested its 1st nuclear device in the year 1974

indianchild.com



To: stockman_scott who wrote (182996)3/6/2006 3:11:34 PM
From: geode00  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 281500
 
We're an empire of 300 million people in a world of 6 billion?

I don't think there's enough threat and violence in the world for those odds to last.

Heck, who listens to us now? Where is the coalition of the willing? Even after 911 we couldn't get most of the world and even a chunk of Europe to go along with us.

True that reality is largely what you make it, but the 'reality' of empire isn't going to happen. It's a few centuries too late for that.