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To: one_less who wrote (5526)	3/12/2003 7:28:57 PM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 7720

This is why I am glad that I am not a politician. I don't think I could handle it. I wouldn't last five minutes, either. Totally alien occupation, IMO.

To: one_less who wrote (5526)	3/12/2003 7:38:45 PM
From: Ish	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 7720

<<One that asks, why are we starving and dying of treatable disease while Americans are fat enough to claim rule over countries on the other side of the planet. >> You mean like can't eat the grain that America gives us and they eat because it's GMO? Why millions go blind every year because GMO rice that American companies will give away isn't used. More vitamin A will prevent a million cases of blindness every year.

To: one_less who wrote (5526)	3/12/2003 8:19:24 PM
From: average joe	Respond to of 7720

The demise of the Soviet Union replaced one big bad guy with a swarm of little bad guys. The only salvation for the world right now is a new Pax Romana.

To: one_less who wrote (5526)	3/12/2003 9:54:29 PM
From: The Philosopher	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 7720

hate to say it but I see her point. Maybe you could help me see it. The American revolutionaries were fighting a colonial government led by a King of dubious sanity ruling from 3,000 miles away in an era when sailing ships were the fastest method of intercontiental communication, and imposing unconsionable burdens on the colonies for the financial benefit of Mother England, such as impressing American seamen for their Navy, imposing taxes on the people, and on and on. Their targets were the soldiers of the King, not innocent civilians. I don't see that any of this applies to Bin Laden. If her point is that all rebels are alike, she should then be including the IRA, the Red Brigades, Timothy McVeigh, the Basque separatists, and every other terror movement. If she wants to say that there is a sharp divide between government santioned use of force for political purposes and all other violence for political purposes, then I can agree that there is such a divide. But it seems to me a pointless distinction, and not the one she was trying to make. Glorifiying Bin Laden is hardly, IMO, an appropriate policy position for an American elected leader to take. I am assuming, though, that she won't be an elected leader after the next election.

To: one_less who wrote (5526)	3/12/2003 9:59:13 PM
From: The Philosopher	Respond to of 7720

One that asks, why are we starving and dying of treatable disease while Americans are fat enough to claim rule over countries on the other side of the planet first, we dont claim rule over other countries. Just the contrary. But the real answer is because you put up with governments that steal from you and don't provide you the services you need, and we didn't and don't. We had such a government over us once, and we revolted and threw it off. If you want a better government for yourselves, quit whining, put your lives on the line, and go change your government. But knocking down the World Trade Towers ain't going to do a single thing to cure your diseases.