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To: greenspirit who wrote (67756)	1/22/2003 10:37:50 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (2) of 281500

<However, there has never been a time (that I can think of), where a major democratic nation built on relatively free-market based principles has attacked another one. Therefore, peaceful, civilized coexistence seems to fit best with democratic free-market ideals.> Michael, It was a minor attack, but France under Mitterrand attacked New Zealand with frogmen and woman, murdering a photographer. In the grand scheme of things, it was minor but since that's been the only attack, it looms large. Germany elected Adolf, who then set about attacking lots of countries. I suppose one could argue that by then they weren't democratic, but the Germans did vote for him. One point is that democratic countries until recent decades have been few and far between. Maybe when there are more of them, we'll see more fighting. But a key point about democracy is that it's not just a few boss monkeys who can get a war up and running and expect to keep power without public support. I agree that China would lean on Taiwan more heavily were it not for the USA selling Taiwan a lot of hardware and sailing around the place with aircraft carriers full of weapons. Mqurice

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