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To: Gary H who wrote (17351)	2/26/2003 3:15:11 PM
From: sea_urchin	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 81980

Gary >Do you think we are next on the invasion list? Who knows? If they start smelling that oil in Alberta then anything is possible.

To: Gary H who wrote (17351)	2/26/2003 4:30:29 PM
From: sea_urchin	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 81980

Gary >Do you think we are next on the invasion list? (2) cnsnews.com >>>What finally stopped Hapsburg Spain and, later, France under Louis XIV and Napoleon and Germany under Hitler from establishing the universal monarchy was a fundamental characteristic of the international state system: Whenever one nation attempts to attain world dominance, it pushes everyone else into a coalition against it. That dynamic, not any love for Saddam, is what is behind German and French opposition to the Bush Administration's plan for war with Iraq. That is what is drawing others, including Russia, into supporting the French and the Germans. The very nature of the international state system assures our quest for universal monarchy will fail, the same way all have failed. And our "unbeatable" military will find itself beaten, just as the Spanish army was beaten at Rocroi, by someone it thought would be a pushover. The real question is not whether the American drive for world hegemony will succeed; it will not. The question is why we are attempting it in the first place.<<<