Re: what a waste

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F閍chad骾r wrote:

Scr韔bh Paul Carr <paulcarr1974@xxxxxxxxx>:
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Anyway, if I told you how many nukes the Americans had got, your hosts
would have a distinct advantage at the negotiating table.


Do you not think that's a scandal, Falcon? So, an organization ought
to keep its facts and figures secret? In other words, they are held
to account by no one? Any organization ought to be held to account by
the public.

FWIW, the US armed forces are accountable (literally) to Congress, but
not all the things they tell the Congress are made public. Sometimes,
you elect people to represent you, and accept that some things remain
secret. There's a difference between oversight and publication.

Seriously though, I think SALT 2 (or whatever number we're on these days)
has the nuke number pretty well defined on both the American and Russian
sides. Didn't I read (in the Telegraph, ironically) that further
reductions had been agreed between Obama and Medvedev recently? With arms
reduction agreements go verification regimes. Just because I neither know
nor care how many they have, and Paul (Wong) Carr doesn't know, it doesn't
follow that no-one knows.

First of all, I think you misunderstood what I was saying. I was
suggesting
that this information wasn't widely known. Even Falcon, someone who
has a
lot of knowledge on military matters prsumably, doesn't know some
things. I
am suggesting it should be widely known. I am suggesting that the
size of a
country's military industrial complex relative to the size of the
economy as
a whole should be something that is widely known but appears not to
be.

Second, your comment, Paul (Wong) Carr. I have no idea what you are
talking
about. I'm in China but that doesn't mean that the China Communist
party
controls what I write. I write what I write. I write what I want to
write,
just like you and Feachadoir and the rest of yez.

Third, I wasn't talking about nukes. I was talking about missiles, as
in
intercontinental missiles. I was wondering how many the US has.
.