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Politics : Prime Minister Jean Chretien -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?


To: marcos who wrote (211)11/26/2002 3:46:59 PM
From: Lazarus_Long  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 443
 
inquire of el Líder just exactly what is his plan for the rebuilding of the USA .... great fun could be had making up an application form for Fidel's equivalent of the Marshall Plan - we might be open to loaning you Rick Mercer for the job, pending your offers of appropriate compensation
Take your meds.

To be antimilitarist is not to be 'leftie', it has nothing to do with left and right
True. Lefties have no hesitation about killing when it fits their interests.

neither is it to be 'pacifist'
Of course, all pacifists are against all use of military force.
Which does lead to suspicion.

it simply means the believer suspects that his species is capable of more than swinging big sticks at neighbours, and that the species might better learn where it is smart to swing, and distinguish those cases from the situations where it is smarter to refrain from swinging
OK. What use of military force have you supported?
UK vs. Argentina?
USSR vs. Hungary?
Nicarauga vs. Costa Rica?
Che vs. Bolivia?
Shining Path?
China vs. Vietnam?
India vs. China?
What?