04-01-2003, 04:32 AM
Well, there's really only one neighbour and since they want friendship, alliance and bilateral free trade agreement (all of which they have) then they'd hardly be interested in invading.
The power that made a play for the Pacific is now on pretty good terms with the Pacific too (a fantastic export market BTW). In the course of that play they fired something like one or two torpedos in coastal waters here. And missed.
I'm not suggesting people shouldn't be prepared for war. I would suggest that the preparation be appropriate to the assessed threat and the potential threats to NZ look to be little more than trans-national terror organizations. We're more worried about earthquakes than invasions.
The power that made a play for the Pacific is now on pretty good terms with the Pacific too (a fantastic export market BTW). In the course of that play they fired something like one or two torpedos in coastal waters here. And missed.
I'm not suggesting people shouldn't be prepared for war. I would suggest that the preparation be appropriate to the assessed threat and the potential threats to NZ look to be little more than trans-national terror organizations. We're more worried about earthquakes than invasions.
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