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To: LindyBill who wrote (83296)	3/18/2003 12:58:34 PM
From: JohnM	Read Replies (1) of 281500

What a load. Makes my feelings about Victor Hanson's articles take a back seat. Good to know we still disagree at profound levels, Bill, not just superficial stuff like whether Friedman is wishy and washy at the same time. You are right; this is about Victorian times. But one of the things we left behind were these kinds of justifications for imperialism, colonialism. Talk about your backward steps. We are possessors of the absolute truths and we intend to impose those truths on the world. I, of course, think the first is absolute nonsense. But I do think it's possible to hold it without also holding the notion that you plan to force those views down everyone else's throat. It just might be the case that the act of forcing produces its opposite. Moreover, the past of the US has not been to force those views but rather to force commercial views, to uphold dictators who supported the expansion of American business interests even when that ran against the interests of local populations. Central America is a prime example; there are plenty of others.

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