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We are not adversaries. We are not going to become adversaries. And it is not mutual military deterrence that keeps us from becoming adversaries. It is mutual respect for common principles.

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We are not adversaries. We are not going to become adversaries. And it is not mutual military deterrence that keeps us from becoming adversaries. It is mutual respect for common principles.

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The whole notion, as applied to our two countries, is ludicrous.
Canada and the United States are at peace for reasons that have nothing whatever to do with our mutual military readiness. We are at peace because of the vast fund of compatible beliefs, common principles, and shared ideals.

Is it because we are both ready in an instant to hurl our military hardware at one another? Is it because we are both zeroed in on one another’s vital targets? Is it because we are both armed to our
technological teeth that we do not go to war?

.. divided by an unguarded frontier of thousands of miles, and there is not a remotest set of circumstances, in any imaginable time frame of the future, in which our two nations would wage war on one another.It is so unthinkable an idea as to be totally absurd. But why is that so?

Times sure have changed! In 1966 Robert McNamara said in Montreal

"Here we are, two modern nations, highly developed technologically, each with immense territory, both enriched with great reserves of natural resources, each militarily sophisticated; and yet we sit across from one another,