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2003-12-21 Iraq

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Posted by phil_b 2003-12-21 5:47:14 AM|| || Front Page|| [7 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Anzar's got a damn big pair, although you can chalk up his support to Spain's long experience fighting the Basque separatists. Terrorists tend to sit down and swap more than just notes and elegant turns of phrases to put into their Revolutionary communiques: the IRA taught the Paleos a thing or two about bomb making, and I'm waiting for the first evidences of terrorist gangs using missile technology from the Paleos.

Posted by Ptah 2003-12-21 5:59:40 AM|| [http://www.crusaderwarcollege.org] 2003-12-21 5:59:40 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 Ptah - I think there is more to it than that. I've spent time in Spain and love the country. Get off the beaten track and its a really cool place, but the dynamic is tradition versus the future. I think Anzar is looking towards the future and sees the future as a trans-atlantic European western periphery and the Americas as core around which the future of the world is made. Spain is on the border of the (arab) world of the past and I think this makes him see things with more clarity than those of us further away from the border.

Aznar is a man of serious principle.

Posted by Anonymous 2003-12-21 6:24:57 AM|| 2003-12-21 6:24:57 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 Indeed. Under Anzar, Spain has been reaching out to Latin America more frequently and with greater success than his predecssors. Those south of our border have many suspicions and resentments regarding the US, some deserved and many the result of their own history. Anzar has quietly oriented Spanish foreign policy to serve as a mentor and trading partner to these countries. Combine this with the Spanish - US alliance from the Cold War and you get another reason why Spain is not in the Axis of Weasels.

I think Anzar also looks at the Alhambra and other evidences of Arab conquest in Spain centuries ago and is determined that his country will not go in the direction that France and some other European nations are drifting. But I worry about what will happen when he leaves office shortly .....

Posted by rkb 2003-12-21 8:07:33 AM|| 2003-12-21 8:07:33 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 I must have missed it: What Israeli Devices????

Posted by SamIII 2003-12-21 8:12:47 AM|| [www.samlindsey.com] 2003-12-21 8:12:47 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 pulse emitters that trigger the IED bombs (supposedly)

Posted by Frank G 2003-12-21 8:43:06 AM|| 2003-12-21 8:43:06 AM|| Front Page Top

#6 If he retires soon, he could do the world a lot of good by staying involved in South America. Portugal could help as well.

Posted by Super Hose 2003-12-21 11:49:11 AM|| 2003-12-21 11:49:11 AM|| Front Page Top

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