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To: Neocon who wrote (16327)	3/24/2000 7:59:00 AM
From: Zoltan!	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769667

You must remember that AlGore was given Russia as his portfolio. He ran the show according to himself. Now he wants US to forget about it. The US voter must be pushed to remember what the Dems want them to forget.

To: Neocon who wrote (16327)	3/24/2000 8:02:00 PM
From: Dayuhan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

If we are going to examine the Russian mess, we should look at it from the beginning, from the fall of the communist government, when there was a brief window of opportunity where intelligent policy might have made a difference. It may prove difficult, though, to pin the failure to take advantage of that opportunity on Gore, so perhaps we shouldn't raise the subject at all. <edit> The people who would like to see the nasty government in China fall might want to look carefully at what happened in Russia. I suspect that in a hundred years - if anybody's still around to contemplate such issues - the Chinese route of preceding political reform with the economic reforms which are necessary to prevent a politically reformed nation from resorting to blackmail to sustain itself (as the Russians have done) will be thought a much better one. Not that the Chinese story is over: it's not, by a long shot, and there's a lot that could go badly wrong. But it's an interesting beginning.