[PEN-L:6243] Re: Re: Why Nato needs to destroy Serbia

["Henry C.K. Liu" <hliu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

NATO has always been a conventional arms organization.  In the post-Cold War
environment strategic nuclear arms control is in danger of becoming nuclear
disarmament, a fundamental shift in the role of arms control being the effect
deterrent to disarmament.

The aggression by NATO against a non-nuclear nation such as Yugoslavia has a
special message: that the defense relationship between conventional and nuclear
arms has not become obsolete.  This is the most significant longterm implication of
Kosovo and every government has gotten the message and started revising their
defense strategies.

HCKL (for defensive purposes against racist humor)

Michael Perelman wrote:

> I don't disagree about the main purpose of NATO, but I suspect that the
> eastward expansion of NATO has a great deal to with the expansion of the demand
> for American arms manufactures.  I understand NATO has been pushing its new
> members by more U.S. fighter planes.
>
> Louis Proyect wrote:
>
> > The main purpose of expanding NATO, as almost everyone has acknowledged, is
> > to make sure that there is no reversal of the changes which have taken
> > place in Russia during the last five years.
>
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> Michael Perelman
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> California State University
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