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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!!
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To: Dayuhan who wrote (56823)10/3/1999 4:24:00 AM
From: Michael M  Read Replies (1) of 108807
 
I've always wanted to contradict myself in back-to-back posts! I just said China was better off without radical change -- now I'm defending the fact that Soviets took the plunge (willingly or not).

Not really a value judgement. Critical mass in one case and not the other, I would say.

I would differ with respect to former European colonies. No way to deny their being in play during the cold war, of course. Just the same, I think a couple more years of control by foreign powers could have ameliorated the resulting state of affairs, in many cases. Plenty of fodder for this discussion from southern Med. to South China Sea.

Although addressing an earlier era, you may enjoy (if you haven't already) the book, "A Peace To End All Peace" by David Fromkin. If nothing else (there is much else, of course), it reminds us that the best informed people of the day didn't know **** all about lands and people in their charge.

I'm afraid most of us sometime assume that 18th, 19th and early 20th century leaders and experts had the same advantage of scholarship and access to same that we have today. I'm not making some lame comment on lack of e-mail and the 'net. There simply was no reliable body of knowledge in existence.

Please cut me a little extra slack on this post. After 4 a.m. here. zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

Mike
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