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Quote by: e_sistani  If Syria and Hizbollah are acrawny and rather insignificant, then why does the USA accuse them of being highly perilous, and why is it scheming to demolish them both?? Bush believes that Syria and Hizbollah are of high threat to its security. As for China, the reason I could think of on top of my mind is that it is a communist country and despite the surfacing happy and stable economic relations that it is sharing with USA currently doesn't mean it won't try to fight it if a world war errupts, besides things are starting to tense up whats with USA's demands that China ends the crackdown in Tibet, and the accusation that it's hurling towards China of the latter's crime against human rights. As for Russia, tension is growing lately because of Bush's missile defence plan in Eastern Europe, Putin has warned that if Bush commences his little scheme he would target both Poland and Czech, point being is that those various scattered strains could lead to a third world war, it may seem like minor excuses to wage such a war, but so was the assasination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in the world war 1. Things could blow out of proportion. |
I never said that hezbollah and Syria can't hurt U.S. interests, I said that in a war involving countries like Britain, Russia, and China, they are really nothing more than a possible spark. There has always been tension between nations. If the USSR and the U.S. didn't come to blows, I see no reason why this time is any more likely to produce war. At the risk of sounding like those who claimed protracted war was impossible before WWI, I'll say that this time is no more likely than what preceded it to incite global war.
Gramps, I happen to agree with you that Nukes are a double edged sword in terms of coercion, but then again, a low tech missile wouldn't be dangerous in anyones hands besides a madman, as the big powers would likely be united along with their high tech, hard to find arsenals against the perpetrators. One thinks that it would be nice if all nuclear weapons were to disappear, but then you remember they probably have kept the world from embarking on another Global war.