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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (14169)	1/29/2002 8:58:25 AM
From: AC Flyer	Respond to of 74559

Mq: >>Foreigners supply the USA with goods and services in vast quantities and Americans supply USD in exchange, but don't actually work to produce something the foreigners want.<< >>I fully appreciate the enormous productive capacity of the USA. I was really meaning just the currency export.<< OK, Maurice, I misunderstood your point. Apologies for the product rant. >>Who is colonizing whom is a good question these days. I own QUALCOMM. Hutchison Whampoa is buying Global Crossing from the bankrupt USA shareholders. Uncle Al is providing the ammunition. I think it's a mutual global occupation of each other. Globalization, in a word.<< Agreed, Maurice. I'm sure that the (mostly British and SEAsian?) shareholders of Hutchison are VERY grateful to all the Americans who poured their hard-earned dollars into building GX's network. :) >>Overweening Poms were a pain during the 20th century. Let's not have overweening Yanks now. It's not a good look.<< Oh come on, Maurice, don't be so sensitive. What would the world do without the US to love and to hate? I am a nauturalized US citizen, by the way, and I wake up every morning grateful to the good folks in the INS who made the mistake of letting me in. :) I know that the Russians defeated Hitler (~11 million dead) by destroying the Wehrmacht on the way to Stalingrad (and back). The US didn't really give a s*!t until Pearl Harbor - in fact, there was a fair amount of support for Hitler in the US business community, who saw the advantages of a unified European market (hey, that's not a bad idea!) I'm shocked, though, that you don't think that the US caused the collapse of the USSR. I was sure that after they heard Ronald Reagan's June 8, 1982 Evil Empire speech to the British House of Commons they were ashamed and just flat out decided to straighten up and fly right. I am grateful to the 1,000+ men of the 16 Field Regiment RNZA who served in Korea from 1950 to 1954, to the approximately 750 members of 161 Battery RNZA and other RNZA units who served in Vietnam as part of the 1st Australian Task Force and to the RNZA for its continuing leadership in demining programs around the world.