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

To: MSI who wrote (16822)	11/8/2002 5:15:02 PM
From: Lazarus_Long	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 93284

You said: Market capitalism increases participation towards democracy. Capitalist citizens are less easily persuaded of the merit of warfare for other than self-defense. The American culture is a more powerful solvent than the military, and with less backlash. Even the Taliban can't hold people back for long, they'll eventually get ideas, and technology, whether it takes months or decades. With our state of military readiness we should worry less about foreign adversaries and more about the all-powerful and increasingly secret national government emerging right here at home. So what is it? The US was not a capitalist democracy in the '60s and early '70s? Or we already had an all-powerful and increasingly secret national government? Or Vietnam was self defense?