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Politics : OKAY, YOU ASKED FOR IT, SEX AND POLITICS!!!
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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (320)12/29/1996 12:41:00 PM
From: Joseph G.   of 351
 
>>I've been reducing my SI proliferation, trying to stay a bit more focussed.>>
What are you focusing on?
>>For wars to happen, somebody has to benefit.>>
Or, hope to benefit. It is like saying "for people to buy stocks, they have to benefit", but they buy because they hope, not because they will.
>> The benefits of war have been reducing for some time and the costs increasing.>>
That might be a good argument if it were possible to ensure that costs and benefits accrue in the same hands. However, if one set of participants pays costs and another gets (or hope to get) benefits, then ... Again a stock analogy: population pays costs, Wall Streeters and insiders accure benefits.
>>There are still plenty of enthusiasts though, but they are increasingly in the nature of internaional criminals rather than empire builders.>>
Why do you use two different sets of words to describe the same thing? What is the difference?

Hope you enjoy the summer, do you?
Joe
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