Z..yes its easy for the US to say..opps I'm sorry..we dropped them by mistake..so did they ?
The US does not want Arabs to unite..they want them to kill each other..they don't want a repeat of the oil crises back in the 70's..it cost the US billions !
If the US found a better source of oil..you will see them walk away from Saudi..and close the gate behind them.
My brother was in Saudi on the first Desert storm, I have been working in and with the middle east since 1991 on and off
.The US was well prepared before any of you think in terms of protecting the "oil interests"..Saddam was an Allie..they betrayed him.
You can watch as much media as you want...but until you are on the ground, with the people..you all have opinions and views from what you are fed..none of you here are qualified to make statements about any middle east country until you have spoke, drank or lived with..iraqis..syrians...arabs in general.
Any loss of life, particularly among children, is tragic. But clearly the mass causalities that were almost universally predicted – not just by the newshounds, but by the many “experts” who commented at the time – have not materialized. “By and large,” the report concludes, “we have not found profound negative health impacts to the rest of the population in surrounding areas, nor have we found widespread contamination that would continue to pose a substantial threat to human health…”
It is worth putting even the UN’s low casualty figures in perspective. As the report notes, over 1,000 onsite reactor staff and emergency workers received heavy exposure to high levels of radiation on the first day of the accident, and some 200,000 workers were exposed in recovery operations from 1986-1987. But only 50 had died of cancer 20 years later.
Exposed children are more at risk from thyroid cancer, but the recovery rate – even in the Soviet Ukraine – was 99 percent. The health experts could find no evidence of increased rates of leukemia or other cancers among the affected residents.
All this encouraging news does come with one caveat. Scientists are divided over how many increased cancer deaths might be expected over the following 20 years – that is, three to four decades after the accident.
Based on a statistical model that assumes all radiation exposure is cumulative and that there is no threshold under which radiation produces no adverse affects on the human body, the report concludes that an additional 4,000 people will die of cancer. As about 1,000 of these would have died from cancer anyway, this represents only a 3 percent increase which the report admits “will be difficult to observe.”
Many question whether it will happen at all. The no-threshold hypothesis, while it forms the basis of U.S. regulatory law, is consistently refuted by real-world evidence. The residents of the Rocky Mountains receive some three times the natural background radiation as people living on the Gulf Coast, for instance, but the incidence of cancer is actually lower in the Rockies.
One might also expect that if the no-threshold theory were correct, at least some of the 200,000 workers exposed on-site at Chernobyl after the initial emergency would have developed cancers, but the UN scientists found none. The no-threshold theory, in fact, seems to have an increasingly tenuous scientific rationale, which is why the French Academy of Science and National Academy of Medicine issued a report a few years ago blasting the theory as “not based on biological concepts of our current knowledge.”
Russia isn't a threat..it has no interest to invade..only wants to ensure the EU and the west does not encroach to near its boarders..that makes sense...as yo know Russia will not be buried into anything...and now nor will China
The feeling I get here is this..America don't like to be 2nd best..now you have China and Russia combined..and USA don't like it..why ?..what is the nearest Russian or Chinese base to the US and how many ?
Now how many bases have the US got near Russia and China ?
SO put yourself in their shoes for a moment and think what would you feel in there shoes and why ?
As both of you are military guys..I do wonder why its so importantto spend so much of your hard earn ed taxes on your military might...i mean..who has invaded or intends to invade the best country in the world...Russia..China..Mexico..
Because of american (and British) policy and interventions..im afraid to say its been responsible for millions of deaths and sufferings, the blood has not stop flowing..I don't need to list them do I
lan158 Blog Comments (667)
Next....
moi?.....mange tout madam