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To: Dayuhan who wrote (3272)3/18/2002 12:43:28 PM
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N says,

"You're right. The obstacles to making this particular precinct of the emerging Pax Americana work out smoothly would be enormous. I don't think that would necessarily stop the Big Thinkers who are pulling Bush's strings. Afghanistan has given them an injection of hubris so powerful that, in their eyes, obstacles will appear to shrink. An example of how events change perceptions: The military historian John Keegan (I think it was), who was banging the drum alarmingly a couple of years ago to warn the US against "imperial overstretch" is now banging the drum for the new US-as-an-invincible-world-ruling-power state. Another example of this effect is my wife."

Note from wife: That is an unfair characterization. As it is when he calls me a blunt instrument hammer of God hawk.
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