Will this story never end?

Richard wrote:
And the USA offered their help out of the good of their heart?
Or did (and does) the US government have a different motivation to help
other nations and stay there for more than 60 years?



Of course not.

It's a matter of survival. You know, NATO etc...

Would you prefer China or Russia to the US?

JT

Grumpy AuContraire wrote:


®i©ardo wrote:

Grumpy AuContraire wrote:



Jim Morris wrote:

http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/07/...ss/9tanker.php



Maybe the defense department is coming to its senses that strategic
contracts need to stay within the US.

JT



...and, hopefully, Europe and the rest of the world will do the same
by refusing to buy anything from the USA.



Well, since Europe has been largely riding on the coattails of the USA
defense umbrella since the end of World War II, that just might be a
workable answer...

JT

Parts of Europe, maybe.

Britain has made a substantial contribution - I didn't see you in the
dead of night on the East - West German border in the 1960s!

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Moving things in still pictures!

®i©ardo wrote:

Grumpy AuContraire wrote:



®i©ardo wrote:

Grumpy AuContraire wrote:



Jim Morris wrote:

http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/07/...ss/9tanker.php



Maybe the defense department is coming to its senses that strategic
contracts need to stay within the US.

JT




...and, hopefully, Europe and the rest of the world will do the same
by refusing to buy anything from the USA.



Well, since Europe has been largely riding on the coattails of the USA
defense umbrella since the end of World War II, that just might be a
workable answer...

JT

Parts of Europe, maybe.

Britain has made a substantial contribution - I didn't see you in the
dead of night on the East - West German border in the 1960s!



No, you didn't. I was busy elsewhere on another continent.

JT

Yep, but definitevely not buying US gaz guzzlers cars ....