[CWOJackson]

"We believe that our partners in the anti-terrorist coalition, the United States and Britain, will inform us about their plans..."

They're starting to understand...we will "inform" not ask permission.

[Beck_isright]

Sucks to be on the losing side. We need those bases so we can relocate our forces out the other loser, Germany.

[SolutionsOnly]

Russian discontnet is understandable. We weren't too happy about the prospect of a Russian presence in Cuba either.

Russian pride is still wounded over the collapse of the USSR. The Cold war mentality is dying a slow death in some quarters, but the realists in Russia realize that we would never attack Russia - nobody in their right mind would want to assume that economic and social mess!

I'm a big fan of disengaging with Germany. It makes sense to relocate our German bases friendlier (and less expensive) territiory in Poland and Bulgaria.