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To: Dayuhan who wrote (60656)	12/9/2002 3:39:53 AM
From: LindyBill	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

But who cares what Marxists think, or why? Nobody listens.... and they are universally ignored. I am glad to see that you think he is right in his analysis. I wish you were right on the point above. The problem is that the idea generated by Marxists, that America is responsible for the World's woes, is now believed by many people in the USA. I said in an earlier post that the people who parrot this idea wouldn't know Karl Marx if he walked up and bit them on the rear, but they are spreading his nonsense on the basis that "Everybody knows this." I think it helps to pull these left wing ideas out by their Marxist roots. :^) The rest of your post concerns the problem raised by the fact that we are now the biggest swinging dick on the Planet. And nobody likes this but us. And even a lot of us don't like this. And since we don't live in Utopia, we don't have a Philosopher/Prince to guide us through. Just good old "43" and his buddies. If 911 had not happened, "43" would have been quite content to take care of domestic concerns and leave the Foreign Policy driving to Powell. Powell would have fiddled around with the ME, made the rounds of the rest of the world, and at the end of Bush's term, no one would have really noticed that we were the Worlds biggest potential bully. But, of course, "911 changed everything." Our response is getting the Muslim world even madder at us, and is annoying the Europeans no end. That really can't be helped, unless we were just going to set back, toss a few Cruise missiles around, and not do anything. We are now in the middle of something that will run as small as a "Police Action" and could get all the way up to "A Clash of Civilizations." There is no cure for not taking action that I would accept. All I can say is, I think our form of Government gives the World a better chance of surviving our actions than any other I can see.