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To: Raymond Duray who wrote (1646)	6/26/2001 5:50:11 PM
From: Jeff Jordan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 208838

Thankyou and now GET REAL

To: Raymond Duray who wrote (1646)	6/26/2001 10:26:28 PM
From: bela_ghoulashi	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 208838

The United States will remain the preeminent nation on the planet for quite some time to come. We have advantages in technology, economic power, military might, education and knowledge, freedom of information, speech, and press, and individual entrepreneurial initiative that no other preceding "empire" could possibly have hoped to match. Yes, every "empire" ends. The United States is not an empire. It is, still, a free nation with an historically unprecendented ability to adapt, innovate, and capitalize on opportunity--not due to the exclusive power of a small handful of autocratic individuals, but due to the freedom and ingenuity of its individual citizens. There is a difference. Unleashing the creativity and productivity of our citizens by bestowing on them personal freedoms, personal liberty, and the incentive to achieve and accomplish for themselves: that is what separates our way of life from that of every other "empire" you've mentioned. The United States represents something, an accomplishment, an endeavor, totally unseen before in the history of our world. And it is not done yet. It is still a work in progress. There will certainly come a time when the United States is no longer the most powerful nation on earth. Look around you. Look at the likely, plausible alternatives. And let's hope that day doesn't dawn any time soon.