Skarpi:

I am not in favor of the US abandoning a formal pact with Iceland either in word or intent. I plead ignorance to the fact. We have heavy installations of military here in Alaska and they are moved around all the time we just assume it's for the best and will not do us any harm. We are a border state (Alaska) but with modern times we are receiving way more trade delegations from the Russians than military fly-by's (although there are still some of those, the Russians haven't stopped being Russians after all). If you are serious that the US is violating an agreement of longstanding with the people of Iceland, has there been official action taken on the part of your country? Has our country responded?

Carol, I'm glad there are some 'prejudices' we have in common.

Little Hawk, your recitiation in brief of Middle East history I took to be a deliberate provocation to others on this forum. Your repetition of it suggests more ignorance than bliss, although I have to keep in mind from some of our earlier 'discussions' the fact that you have a unique glossary of standard words and phrases in your mind that translate differently from the rest of us. But your contributions to the thread bring up the notion that even in hindsight history is rarely "twenty-twenty".

Incidentally, in 1948 both the United States and the Soviet Union couldn't recognize the new nation-state of Israel fast enough. I can't remember which was first, but I remember an Arab delegate chiding the USSR over it in the UN speechifying that took place in the wake of the Six Day War. The USSR decided they could make more headway in the Middle East by throwing in with various Arab movements, and it was their aid both economic and military to Egypt that got the heavy funds moving into the area.



As they say in Iceland, may there be a car in every garage, a puffin in every pot.

Cheers,

Robo