L'acrobat wrote:

"Tuollaf43" wrote in message
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err - the US Carriers, bombers and tanks protect the Europeans from
whom exactly?

Since the fall of the Easten Bloc and USSR - exactly no-one.

Who is about to murder the germans, rape the french and
pillage the Brits?

The Americans ?

For instance I am at a loss to understand who
threatens the physical security of the UK? Why does UK or France need
Carriers?

To look *cool* man !

Hey - those new UK carriers are in the 'Nimitz Class' ! Let's show those Yanks
we can play in their backyard too !

I see you've not heard of the Falklands...

The Falklands fiasco was caused by the cheap erronious 'corner shop mentality'
economics of Margaret Thatcher's ( right wing cost-cutting ) administation that
resulted in the Argies foolishly thinking we didn't care about the Falkland Is
any more.

Big mistake !


Graham