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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (16059)1/11/2002 5:57:53 AM
From: frankw1900  Read Replies (1) of 281500
 
Maurice, Gorbachev and the others were new men who didn't have blood on their hands nor heart to kill millions of their compatriots in defense of a Perfectly Stupid Idea. That's why the Soviet communists fell apart.

To the degree they "won" in NKorea it's a perfect picture ofthe Ultimately Stupid Idea come alive.

With regard to Vietnam the US left without ever fighting a militarily effective war, although I believe they never lost a battle - much like the Soviets in Afghanistan.

(With respect to both, I never saw a dumber imperial arrangement - both N Korea and Vietnam cost the soviets plenty. I always thought the idea of empire was to bring home the booty. Mind you, their behaviour in Eastern Europe was even dumber: export raw materials to the colonies and import finished. ROTFLMAO!)

What I found audacious in Sisci's article was the next part: "The same could now be accomplished by bringing China and India into an attempt to rein in Islamic fundamentalism."

Nice trick if it can be done....
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