Reply #32: The big picture [View All]

[jimlup]

Thanks, I haven't read the agreement. I didn't know that it was only a Radar system. Obviously, I realize that the cuban missile crises was about nuclear tipped ballistic missiles, I was alive then and lived on the East coast. My dad built a fallout shelter in our basement that week. I still believe it is a worthwhile exercise to consider how the United States would react to a similar agreement in Cuba or maybe Latin America. In the '80s when the Russians sold some Mig fighters to Nicaragua, Reagan and the Republicans had the Sandinista marching on Texas. It was pretty laughable.

I think the real issue here is probably the courting of the Czech republic as a US client state. Not to mention the deployment of an anti-missile system in Eastern Europe. It is somewhat interesting, I'll give it that. Clearly the anti-missile system has the Russians bugged. We'll see what becomes of it. It worth a careful study. I for one don't trust the rationality and foresight of the Bush administration to do this. They have proven repeatedly that they don't understand the big picture.