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To: gamesmistress who wrote (256976)	7/7/2008 7:41:28 AM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) of 794032

The reason for the reforms was the same reason New Zealand got stuck into reforms about the same time = desperate financial straits plus a change of guard with different philosophical and economic foundations: <Did the US do anything to hamper Gorbachev's reforms? Why do you suppose Gorbachev pursued glasnost and perestroika anyway, out of the goodness of his heart?> Maggie Thatcher had started reforms a few years earlier for similar reasons. But Argentina took the opportunity to invade the Falklands Islands. NATO did NOT spring into gear and the gentlemen of NATO left the lady to handle the situation herself. New Zealand had also been planning on invading and conquering the USA but the new government decided local reform was more useful and more likely to succeed. The USA didn't do a lot to hamper reforms in the USA but did what they could to hamper New Zealand which had adopted an anti-nuclear policy, such as backing the French terrorist attack against New Zealand. As I explained, Reagan was a bystander, busily doing Iran contra deals and playing shiny pebbles and stuff. en.wikipedia.org Mqurice

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