Orville_third
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NATO didn't invade Libya in 1986- despite a NATO nation's base being attacked- on another NATO nation's soil!a very US ethnocentric view there
as to why the rest of NATO doesn't immediately jump to the US beck and call over the wars it chooses to fight , cough *NORAID* cough - not only did the tacit support for some IRA activity by parts of the US population effect the UK ( and none NATO Eire) it also raised the threat levels in Germany and bordering NATO states ( and a slight rise in Spain because of Gibraltar) as UK military personnel and their dependents were IRA targets regardless of where they were.
I could see the US reaching out to India easily. And Bush knew the Pakistanis were trying to proliferate nukes- and he cut off the investigation. (Source: Greg Palast, BBC Newsnight.)
It's more likely al-Quaida would get a 10 KT bomb. I was recently watching a video of an old History Channel special in which they estimated what would go on if a terrorist blew up a nuke outside the Capitol at 9 AM on a typical day. No matter how tough some buildings are, a LOT would have been destroyed.