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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (95717)4/23/2003 2:31:50 AM
From: Dayuhan  Read Replies (2) of 281500
 

The British Empire and the Roman lasted longer than the Third Reich or the Soviet Empire, and one of the reasons was that they brought benefits as well as compunction.

The British Empire did not survive because it brought benefits, it survived because none of those it conquered believed that they could defeat their occupiers. This lasted until the Japanese showed that "lesser peoples" could defeat and humiliate the British. The Empire died with the surrender at Singapore.

The British wanted to sell to the Chinese a commodity which the Chinese wanted to buy, and which btw the British themselves bought in large amounts, and the Mandarins prevented it.

The Mandarins prohibited the substance because they believed it was dangerous to their society. The British sold it anyway, because they wanted to make money. Is that so different from the Cali cartel?

Show an international body that meets the test of representation and accountability to the governed, the American people will feel differently.

How is such a body supposed to come into existence if we have no interest in creating it? If such a body did exist, do you think our currenrt administration would join, even if it meant submitting ourselves in some circumstances to an authority that we could not control, and with which we might not always agree?
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