In a message dated 4/24/2004 8:15:41 AM Eastern Daylight Time, omarkusto@xxxxxxxxx writes: the American policy regarding nuclear armaments in the Middle East. â??Hey, you there, Iraq and Iran and Libya, stop it! Not YOU, Israel!â?? ______________ Why should US policy be different? Would you have wanted a nuke-toting Saddam to have invaded Kuwait? Do you seriously believe that MORE countries should have nukes? You don't want to hold that number of countries steady, by whatever means, while trying to reduce stockpiles? I mean, if we allow mass proliferation of any WMDs the statistics will sooner or later catch up with all the Homo sapiens sapiens. ------------------------------------------------------------------ To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html