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To: maceng2 who wrote (53039)	10/18/2002 6:58:37 PM
From: Bilow	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Hi Pearly_Button; I don't think you can blame the Vietnam debacle on a failure of democracy in the US, or on any peculiar nature of the citizens. People make mistakes. Every society on the planet gets deluded about one thing or another every now and then, and subsequently does something stupid. If you're the biggest boy on the block, your little problems with reality cause bigger problems than most, and so are very noticeable, but I don't think that the US has created a disproportionate amount of the world's problems. If you compare the power of the United States to the size of the problems it creates, we are arguably the most moral state on the planet. We, like everybody else on the planet, are only human. We make mistakes, so do our institutions, etc. But this country is still a hell of a lot better than yours in every way <sticks cyber tongue out>. -- Carl