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To: smolejv@gmx.net who wrote (30093)	3/25/2003 6:50:21 PM
From: Raymond Duray	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74559

Re: You take them for stupid or what, Ray? We are all Alphas and they are all equal or worse Epsilons? Actually, I was reflecting more on the nature of realpolitick and its shortcomings. During the 18th and 19th Centuries, native tribes on the North American continent were involved in multiple vicious internecine conflicts. The French, English and Americans all took advantage of this, playing tribe against tribe and eventually the result was the genocide and concentration camp existence of all the native nations. Tribes have an uncanny knack of not being able to comprehend a regional or national interest beyond their smaller organizational unit. The Brits played this game fairly well in Mesopotamia during and after the First World War. However, it is true that the British Expeditionary Forces had occupied Basra in 1917, and were incapable of conquering Baghdad until 1920. Plus ca change, la plus l'meme chose? The U.S. military will conquer Baghdad in much shorter order. Which will give a lot of G.I. Joe's a lot more time to live in perpetual fear and wonder what in the world they've gotten themselves into. Yes, the other thing that never seems to change is the rhetoric. The Brits justified their excursion into what became Iraq in the 1910's on the basis of "liberating" the populace. Yeah, right.