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01-14-2011, 08:08 PM
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01-14-2011, 08:43 PM
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Thanks for the help!
 and the laugh. I really needed it!now for the Baghdad Pact 'Curtain'.... or "Veil" to play upon the fact Muslim countries force their women to wear them...
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01-14-2011, 10:36 PM
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Khaki Curtain for the South Americans. Maybe not at a Command level, but I think it would stick for the grunts.
Maybe just even the Cuban Curtain. More straightforward than all the others, but you don't have to veil your references all the time.
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01-16-2011, 02:35 AM
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On the African organization, I don't think any options would be adopted in political discourse for fear of seeming or sounding racist. Informally among the military something not entirely appropriate would probably be prevalent (i.e. modern day "AFRICOM" is usually referred to as "SOULCOM" by a lot of the people that are actually slated to operate there, for better or worse).
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01-16-2011, 06:34 PM
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I don't think the "curtain" designation is appropriate for the other power blocs because it's use didn't designate a power bloc nor was it simply describing the border defences and restrictions between east and west.
It was used to describe the notion that like a curtain in a window, we in the west could not see into the east and examine what they were doing. So the "Iron Curtain" label didn't signify the influence of the Soviet Union over the WarPact nations so much as it was a description of the restricted view of Eastern Europe we were able to get.
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