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**zttrftwsq** · 11-12-2010, 08:16 PM

Back in the bad ol' days of the Cold War, the US had missle bases - Atlas? Nukes? - in Turkey, as memory serves. That was one of the quid-pro-quos of the end of the Cuban Missle Crisis - the Soviets withdrew their tactical nukes from Cuba, and - after a decent interval - the US withdrew its ballistic, possibly nuke missles from Turkey.

& of course, the US had - & still has - strategic bomber bases in England & various air bases in Germany, Italy, Spain, Saudi Arabia, Japan, Qatar - I wouldn't be surprised if we could TDY surge bombers from Iraq, Afghanistan.

Israel is eager for us to establish arms depots & field troops (& nuke bombers?) from the IDF homeland. So far, we're resisting that.

11-12-2010, 08:16 PM	#15
zttrftwsq Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 410 Senior Member	Back in the bad ol' days of the Cold War, the US had missle bases - Atlas? Nukes? - in Turkey, as memory serves. That was one of the *quid-pro-quos* of the end of the Cuban Missle Crisis - the Soviets withdrew their tactical nukes from Cuba, and - after a decent interval - the US withdrew its ballistic, possibly nuke missles from Turkey. & of course, the US had - & still has - strategic bomber bases in England & various air bases in Germany, Italy, Spain, Saudi Arabia, Japan, Qatar - I wouldn't be surprised if we could TDY surge bombers from Iraq, Afghanistan. Israel is eager for us to establish arms *depots* & field troops (& nuke bombers?) from the IDF homeland. So far, we're resisting that.
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