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To: BigBull who wrote (21738)	3/19/2002 4:32:11 PM
From: BigBull	Respond to of 281500

Perhaps the most glaring exceptions to the Ms. Powers interview and that review were the genocides perpetrated by the Soviet Union and Communist China (the Gulag and the Cultural Revolution). Curious huh? I wonder if she approved of the "containment policies" pursued by the US and it's allies regarding those known perps. I shudder to think what South Korea would look like today had the US not fought off the North, or what Europe would look like without Nato. It is better to spot and head off these tragedies, but that is far easier said than done. As both reviewer and author have acknowledged - it's "The problem from Hell."

To: BigBull who wrote (21738)	3/19/2002 10:54:04 PM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

Whenever I read self-congratulation about nation building in Germany and Japan in 1945 it sends me into a ring-ding ding-dong tizzy. Germany and Japan already had a strong, decades long democratic tradition. They had high literacy rates. Strong civil institutions. A tradition of peaceful self rule for centuries. All we had to do is scrape off the effluvia, and let the sunshine in. Let the good guys out of the dungeon, call them home from exile, and put the bad guys into the dungeon. The good guys were ready to roll, they just needed support. Anybody who says we can do the same anywhere without that cultural infrastructure already in place is fooling themselves, and I hope that's all they are fooling. I could point to any number of nations in Africa as cases in point.