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Politics : DON'T START THE WAR -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Mao II who wrote (9929)	2/18/2003 4:26:08 PM
From: TigerPaw	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 25898

It is marginally easier to look at the actions of the government The Soviet government had no intention of falling apart. A government cannot continue when it's people vehemently want something else. The former Soviet infrastructure appears to be in worse shape now than it was in the 1980s, but there does not seem to be a strong desire to revert back to the old system. And then there was the devastating war in Afghanistan Wars are more likely to wreck a country than to encourage it. The U.S. lost more in Korea and Vietnam than it ever gained in the Gulf War. A country can count itself lucky if the wars it fights are merely bad, instead of devastating. TP