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To: TimF who wrote (233925)	5/20/2005 8:00:58 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) of 1576245

Please stop being anal in your need for specificity It doesn't have to be the exact same thing. The USSR was in terminal decline, and had a rottenness at its core even before the decline that far exceeded anything the US has ever had. Asserting the US is in any sort of absolute decline is highly questionable to say the least, but if it is the decline isn't even remotely like that of the USSR. Like I said, no two countries are the same. Increasingly, this country has economic and morality issues with which to deal. In addition, there are some very significant divisions within the population, fueled by extremist behavior on the part of the right. Will it lead to our decline? I don't know. Could it? Of course. The bad thing about a declining nation is that the population rarely knows its happening until its too late. I am talking ten years down the road spending like we are spending today. Why do you assume that this will be the case? That's what some military generals are saying.......the ones not beholden to this White House. More and more guys are coming back with PTSS. That is the nature of war. It doesn't mean moral is bad. We've had PTSS in every war we have fought although it wasn't always called that, but "Shell shock", and "Combat fatigue", and other terms all meant pretty much the same thing. First the incidence is much higher than previous wars. And its not just because we can diagnose it better. Secondly, if people are freaked out.......typically that goes hand in hand with poor morale. Bottom line: there was absolutely no reason to fight this war. And we paying a steep price for frivolity. ted

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