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To: Hawkmoon who wrote (124338)	2/4/2004 9:23:46 AM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (2) of 281500

<It would be nice to think that Billions of people could come together into one big, happy, international family... But the odds are greatly against it. > Hawk, I'd say that process has been continuing to develop for a century. The political processes will follow the sociological. Compare Europe now with 100 years ago pre WWI. Asia is pretty stable though N Korea is rattling their sabre in its scabbard and China rants and raves about Taiwanese not being subservient to the megalomaniacs in Beijing. Think of the globalisation effects which have already happened. Think of the human migrations and global communications and corporate integration. Look at the shift from kingdoms, dictatorships and seeking of empire [Germany, Japan, dissolution of the British Empire, USSR] to democratic processes and state stability. There were 1 billion warring people living lives of rural penury. Now there are 6 billion living fairly harmoniously and with a cornucopia of goods and services [just count the cellphones in China as one example]. Mqurice

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