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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (258292)	7/18/2008 1:08:02 PM
From: greenspirit	Respond to of 793974

Maurice, the heart of every war effort is logistics. Britain and the rest of the coalition that booted Saddam out of Kuwait would never of proceeded unless they had the powerful American military supporting them. Face it, the rest of the world has looked to the Big-Dog-Daddy American military to do all the serious lifting of keeping dictators in check for decades. Most of their electorate are too selfish to endure the sacrifices of keeping dictators in place and thereby keeping peace on this planet. New Zealanders would rather go surfing and worry about sharks snapping at their boogy-boards, or go marching against an evil U.S. nuclear submarines pulling into one of their piers, then doing something to prevent dictators from committing mass murder. Oh sure, they will write high-minded articles, but when it comes to actually paying for the weapons, planes, ships and soldiers to support the effort, the U.S. will have to handle that. No worries though mate, the American public is not about to arbitrarily disengage from the world and build our own Atlantis just yet. To say the U.S. helped in Desert Storm, as if it were one of many players, is as out of kilter with reality as saying WW2 was won by the New Zealand army.