Re: European Military Not Up To Par?

[Leon Harrison <juni0r@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 09:24 5/02/02 -0600, you wrote:

> >   "How many times have I had a young American tell me how
> > he could just 'Nuke' New Zealand... well, might be a good option, cause if
> > I was him I wouldn't want to fight against a militia here, in Fiordland
> > ;-)  I am glad that the Americans I know aren't that stupid.  Personally,
> > I'd rather make friends or keep the ones I had than create enemies that
> > could have been really good allies."
> >
> >
> > Ok, I have to ask this question, just how MANY times have you had that
> > happen?
> > I honestly cannot _imagine_ anyone saying they could just nuke NZ.
> >
> > Statically speaking, while I don't have the numbers to back me up, just my
> > own informal observations, at least 40% of us over  here couldn't pinpoint
> > NZ on a map, let alone figure out how to target it ;)
> >
> > Just amazed that anyone could be upset with y'all. ;)
> >
> >                            Regards,
> >                            Ted V. Huckaby

Well mate, your points are some that I feed right back at them :)  And 
anyway, how could yah come here for a holiday if the place was 
nuked?  :).  And yeah my comments were a simple method to point out the 
stupidity of such remarks.  You know we have heaps of sheep though 
right?  ;-)  And yeap, there would be a problem with the targetting :)  But 
then, someone has us in their scopes, cause we got a few vital pacific spy 
bases here... hehe.  Yeah apprently that 40% is pretty close to the 
mark.  But anyway, just to set the record straight, don't care where you 
think it is so long as you know it IS NOT part of Aussie, well, least not 
yet anyhow.  Some people in the Northern Hemisphere have quoted as saying 
it was in Sweden.


>Apparently, the New Zealand PM has made some comments that have been
>interpreted as anti-American by some.  I have not heard these comments, so I
>cannot verify the intent.  Leon, perhaps you can clarify this.

Anti American... ummm well a few years ago, the previous labour government, 
with the backing of many anti- military, PC outfits banded US warships from 
our ports.  The neither confirm nor deny policy.  But as for most recently 
can't pinpoint any particular comments Ted.  Funnily enough such anti US 
sentiment doesn't work so well, since WW2 we are the sole country to have 
allied ourselves with every conflict the US has been involved with.  The NZ 
government offered the NZSAS group before it was asked for and very gladly 
taken up by the US.


LTH