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To: cnyndwllr who wrote (169935)	8/26/2005 5:06:15 PM
From: one_less	Read Replies (2) of 281500

"Now, if you want to tell me all the "gains" ... Good topic. I don't think we can make a simple 'factual' list of gains that stands clean on its own. Anytime you enter into a change mode you are bound to disrupt the equalibrium of the status quo. With that you have guaranteed costs to any benefit that might ensue. There are also risks that the the benefit may not be justified by the costs. We are currently in the midst of the most tremendous effort to change the conditions of the world since WWII. The hardship we are suffering and the costs of our operations are a tremendous burden. We have only the very real threats and the responsibility to struggle for a better world to justify our continued struggle at this point. It is useless to discuss realized benefits (gains) at this point. It would be equivalent to evaluating the benefits of the Civil War in the USA during Sherman's March. You may recall that was the slash and burn campaign that destroyed everything for sixty miles wide as he marched through the South to break the supply lines to southern troops.

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