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<blockquote data-quote="John Roberts" data-source="post: 49224" data-attributes="member: 126"><p>Re: running commentary on middle east policy and news.</p><p></p><p></p><p>And our activity in Europe was not to unilaterally threaten or intimidate the USSR, but balance their undue influence over western Europe to prevent Finlandization of the entire continent. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finlandization" target="_blank">Finlandization - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia</a></p><p></p><p>I was in Germany with the first infantry division in 1970 participating in Nato maneuvers with allies, while the soviets were 10 kilometers away on the opposite side of the border doing the exact same thing with their eastern bloc armies. </p><p></p><p>I believe a free democratic Europe was worth defending, and make no mistake the cold war was a war. While settled with economic power rather than military might. Another reason we shouldn't dismantle our economic engines.</p><p></p><p>Speak softly but carry a big (economic) stick... </p><p></p><p>============</p><p></p><p></p><p>Yup, perhaps more like lie detectors than mind readers, we hairless monkeys exhibit many physical tells when our words are out of sync with our thoughts, while some are better liars than others (pathological), and some even believe their lies are true so they aren't actually lying.. </p><p>------</p><p></p><p>No doubt Bhutto was killed for old fashioned political reasons, but I consider it more insidious how freely the religious extremist kill each other in the name of their religion. Regarding that blasphemy law the moderate politicians were opposed to, it is mostly applied to minorities to discredit them, and even more insidious, something like 60% of those charged and acquitted (declared innocent) are later killed anyhow. </p><p></p><p>It wasn't always like that over there... this extremism seems to have greatly expanded over the last few decades. </p><p></p><p>JR</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="John Roberts, post: 49224, member: 126"] Re: running commentary on middle east policy and news. And our activity in Europe was not to unilaterally threaten or intimidate the USSR, but balance their undue influence over western Europe to prevent Finlandization of the entire continent. [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finlandization]Finlandization - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia[/url] I was in Germany with the first infantry division in 1970 participating in Nato maneuvers with allies, while the soviets were 10 kilometers away on the opposite side of the border doing the exact same thing with their eastern bloc armies. I believe a free democratic Europe was worth defending, and make no mistake the cold war was a war. While settled with economic power rather than military might. Another reason we shouldn't dismantle our economic engines. Speak softly but carry a big (economic) stick... ============ Yup, perhaps more like lie detectors than mind readers, we hairless monkeys exhibit many physical tells when our words are out of sync with our thoughts, while some are better liars than others (pathological), and some even believe their lies are true so they aren't actually lying.. ------ No doubt Bhutto was killed for old fashioned political reasons, but I consider it more insidious how freely the religious extremist kill each other in the name of their religion. Regarding that blasphemy law the moderate politicians were opposed to, it is mostly applied to minorities to discredit them, and even more insidious, something like 60% of those charged and acquitted (declared innocent) are later killed anyhow. It wasn't always like that over there... this extremism seems to have greatly expanded over the last few decades. JR [/QUOTE]
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