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To: NonValueAdded
Have we completed adding Romania to NATO?
According to Wikipedia, we have, since March 29, 2004.

So, I guess if Romania wants us to, all of NATO is at war with Iran now.

111 posted on 08/22/2006 2:34:00 PM PDT by cartan
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To: cartan

Have we completed adding Romania to NATO?

According to Wikipedia, we have, since March 29, 2004.

So, I guess if Romania wants us to, all of NATO is at war with Iran now.


My guess is that this is precisely what Iran intended, and expected, i.e., initiate WWIII via an attack on a least-expected avenue, an attack on a small NATO member nation.

Definitely an Archduke Ferdinand maneuver (or rather, a Gavrillo Princip maneuver).

However, don't expect anything to happen from it. NATO will stand down, and if Romania is so naive as to think that "Membership has its Privileges"... well, they'll find out otherwise.

This "failure" of Iranian strategy will of course serve to further embolden them, now that they know that "the west" really will absorb a punch without retaliation.

136 posted on 08/24/2006 12:58:36 AM PDT by Don Joe (We've traded the Rule of Law for the Law of Rule.)
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