Re: [OT]Nukes... tunnels.... boom....

--- Jonathan White <jonw@nessie.mcc.ac.uk> wrote:

> bullet. I suggest you consult a good late C20
> history book about the Suez
> crisis 

Didn't that backfire rather badly?  

> or Falklands conflict, 

Granted--although the fact that it strained the entire
UK military establishment to send a tiny task force
and two light infantry brigades to a place in the same
ocean is worth noting.	Once upon a time, such an
insult to UK sovreignty would only be purgable by
occupying Argentina.  Semi-permenantly.

> or the French
> 'involvement' in Algeria. There

Didn't Algeria _win_ that war?	Or at least, it looks
like Algeria is an independant state.

John

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