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2005-08-19 Britain

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Posted by anonymous2u 2005-08-19 00:14|| || Front Page|| [3 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Yes we have a good long standing alliance with Britian.
Yes we have a good long standing alliance with Ozzyland.

The post frames suppositions about Brit & Aus that are nonsense. IMO

Posted by Red Dog 2005-08-19 00:53|| 2005-08-19 00:53|| Front Page Top

#2 There is something to the seemingly inrxorable move by the MoD to equip its forces with European instead of US hardware. The European gear is by design more or less incompatible with the US. By so doing, the MoD is walking away from the alliance with the US. So equipped, their troops would just be in the way on the battlefield and moving towards the same military irrelevance and impotence that characterizes Germany and France.

Posted by RWV 2005-08-19 03:49|| 2005-08-19 03:49|| Front Page Top

#3 inexorable.

Posted by RWV 2005-08-19 03:50|| 2005-08-19 03:50|| Front Page Top

#4 I think the tsunami relief 'evidence' is better explained by the fact that it happened right next door to Australia and in a neighborhood the US drives through every day on its way to 'work'.

Posted by glenmore">glenmore 2005-08-19 07:32|| 2005-08-19 07:32|| Front Page Top

#5 "I think the tsunami relief 'evidence' is better explained by the fact that it happened right next door to Australia and in a neighborhood the US drives through every day on its way to 'work'."

Um... lots of places are closer than we are....where were they in the relief effort? We "drive through" the other side of the world regularly? How is this possible? Perhaps a blue water navy has something to do with it?

Another q- Could the UK pull off the Falklands war again? Perhaps and perhaps not. But I do know that no EU "military" force will ever fight for anything, ever.

Posted by Mark E. 2005-08-19 16:43|| 2005-08-19 16:43|| Front Page Top

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