Foreign Correspondence

[Amaunet]

The missiles do not lie; this war is not about terrorism. Terrorism is but one component of this war, albeit a graphic one.

The following excerpts from #msg-4588839 define the difference between terrorism and the nuclear threat.

Mr Putin said yesterday that Russia still viewed terrorism as the greatest threat to its national security but should also not forget about the nuclear threat.

"We understand that the moment we turn our attention from such elements of our defences as a nuclear missile shield, then we will be facing new threats," he said.

"That is why we will continue to persistently develop our armed forces on the whole, including its nuclear arsenal potential."

The shift in attention to nuclear deterrence came unexpectedly because Mr Putin has for months said that terrorism posed the major threat to Russia's national security amid a wave of deadly suicide attacks from guerillas in rebel Chechnya.

If the major threat to the United States was terrorism why is Bush also lining up missiles?

US plans to accelerate deployment of Aegis warships for missile defense

The world will not take these missiles lightly.

According to a Chinese white paper, Beijing sees “new negative developments” in the Asia-Pacific region. These include a strengthening US military presence and bilateral military alliances in China’s neighbourhood, and US development of a theatre missile defence system and plans to deploy it in Asia. “The Taiwan Straits situation is complicated and grim,” the white paper states.
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=story_18-10-2002_pg3_8
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In the first step toward erecting a multibillion-dollar shield to protect the United States from foreign missiles, the U.S. Navy will begin deploying state-of-the-art destroyers to patrol the waters off North Korea as early as next week.

The mission, to be conducted in the Sea of Japan by ships assigned to the Navy's 7th Fleet, will help lay the foundation for a system to detect and intercept ballistic missiles launched by "rogue nations." - Sep. 25, 2004
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In addition to North Korea the Sea of Japan also frames China and Russia.

Japan has indicated that it might allow the US to establish its Middle East command headquarters strangely enough not in the Middle East but in Japan next to North Korea, Russia and China.
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Bush also intends to place missiles in Iraq, Afghanistan and some of the former Soviet republics this would surround Russia, China, North Korea, Myanmar and others.

A key component of national missile defense, whose development is receiving priority this year, is likely to strategically tie the United States to Iraq, Afghanistan and some of the authoritarian former Soviet republics, requiring permanent US military bases there, according to officials and scientists involved in the project. - Sept 5, 2004
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Furthermore we have Russia saying a United States deal with Denmark to upgrade a radar in north-western Greenland has raised fresh security concerns over Washington's planned missile defence shield, known as 'son of star wars'.

The deal signed on Friday allows Washington to upgrade the Thule radar to use it in a chain of similar US installations stretching from Alaska to Australia designed to avert potential missile attacks against North America. - August 10, 2004
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This much bigger global war this administration is setting up is not about terrorism.

-Am