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To: Dayuhan who wrote (3272)	3/17/2002 7:12:17 PM
From: Lazarus_Long	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 21057

You're right. We should have declined Hitler's offer to duke it out. If we didn't, we'd have to deal with those annyong Nazi fanatics when we won, the problem of Germany would have been ours at the end of war, we would have had to keep troops in Europe for years, possibly decades, and we would have had to support and prop up European gov'ts for a long time. Good thing we didn't get involved in that.

To: Dayuhan who wrote (3272)	3/18/2002 12:43:28 PM
From: E	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 21057

N says, "You're right. The obstacles to making this particular precinct of the emerging Pax Americana work out smoothly would be enormous. I don't think that would necessarily stop the Big Thinkers who are pulling Bush's strings. Afghanistan has given them an injection of hubris so powerful that, in their eyes, obstacles will appear to shrink. An example of how events change perceptions: The military historian John Keegan (I think it was), who was banging the drum alarmingly a couple of years ago to warn the US against "imperial overstretch" is now banging the drum for the new US-as-an-invincible-world-ruling-power state. Another example of this effect is my wife." Note from wife: That is an unfair characterization. As it is when he calls me a blunt instrument hammer of God hawk.