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To: TobagoJack who wrote (3952)	5/28/2001 10:21:31 PM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74559

I agree that the past is done, in the sense that it cannot be changed. But I think we are really talking about the future. We've touched on so many things that really matter to the future - let me count some of the ways, in no particular order. 1. National Missile Defense - is it destabilizing to the world balance of power? 2. Chinese aid in arming the Middle East - will the world actually be a safer place when Saddam has nuclear weapons, or is the hope that he will act as a distraction to US causing weakness in the Pacific? 3. Does the US want to "redraw the map" and take Tibet and Xinjiang away from China? 4. Economic relations between Taiwan and the rest of the Han diaspora, and China - clearly cooler heads in China have no intention of attacking Taiwan, do they? So what's the fuss about? >>You wait, I will do, and you will see.<< I have faith in you. It's everybody else that worries me.-g- Lots of good controversy, and much fun. Very educational. I am deeply honored to have such intelligent people to talk to.

To: TobagoJack who wrote (3952)	5/29/2001 12:39:07 AM
From: smolejv@gmx.net	Respond to of 74559

>>The American experiment, back when it was new, was a bold experiment in sharply breaking with the past.<< My reading on that is that American revolution has many parallels to the French revolution that was about to erupt. The differences are of course big enough: Atlantic between the past and the future in American case, as well as clean slate as regards local history and politics. Still I think if American experiment deserves the name of revolution ("sharply breaking with the past"), so much more does the French - what nobody disputes and you're writing things which are generally accepted. So get off the air and dont clutter the bandwidth ;^ - dj