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Politics : Impeach George W. Bush -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Lazarus_Long who wrote (6930)	9/24/2001 3:09:08 AM
From: jttmab	Respond to of 93284

I apologize. I meant to imply no such thing Thanks. Last time I checked it was still Communist and Castro was still in charge. The ol' guy has mellowed with age and his brother seems to be interested in reform. I think we should look at that as an opportunity, open up trade and private investment which I think would accelerate the reform. You sure have some depressing links. I never start out looking for depressing links. I found that one, searching for the population of a particular country so I could calculate the per capita cost of something or another. Then I saw the sort function. Cool. Then it became a depressing. One oddity [of several] is that North Korea has a rather old population. Given that I'm led to believe that the population is eating tree bark and human remains to survive, I would have expected something different. One of my favorite is the Reform Monitor. reformmonitor.org Quite interesting in looking at what other countries have and have recently done. You can find reforms done in other countries that are being pushed in the US as reform. It can be a sneak peak at some of the problems they encountered along the way. It's also hard to come to the conclusion that socialized medicine is such an awful way of dealing with health care. You notice that the US wins the "material" stats, more hosptial beds per capita, more doctors per capita, higher paid doctors, etc...all of which are in the abstract good things, but we don't win the categories like life expectancy and infant mortality rate. The "socialized medicine" countries are winning in those categories. With the kind of resources that we put into health care we should be. The question for me is, why not? So far, we've been able to control that sort of thing. So far. Yup. So far, isn't very comforting. Nukes will probably require at least aid from a nation-state. For a while. But in nukes, I think more in terms of a terrorist group stealing one from Pakistan. I have absolutely no idea what kind of safeguargs Pakistan has on it's weapons. Something like PAL? I've not a clue. Nature provides the root technology for biological weapons. Anthrax is there. In that regard, the technology challenge is the delivery system. Depending on the pathogen, that can be very difficult, but not something you need a nation's resources for. It's too early in the morning for a scotch, but I could use one about now. How about deterrence? Deter the ambitions of prospective martyrs by making an example of how to be a martyr? Another scotch. jttmab