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To: greenspirit who wrote (95025)	4/19/2003 10:20:55 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Respond to of 281500

Michael, getting to the moon was a pipe-dream too. But it just takes somebody to set the goal. George II is in a position to do it. Whether he will choose to, or not, is the question. If we invented the United Nations today, would we end up with what we've got? The answer is clearly no. So, because there is a major need for revamp, let's get on with the job. Stalin sat in the post WWII post-mortem conference with Churchill and what's his name and not long after, they came up with the current form of the United Nations. Stalin for goodness sakes!! We don't need to be bound by the silly WWII outcome for how we run international relations in the 21st century. It's not a pipe dream. It's obvious and simple. Getting to the moon would be more difficult. Mqurice PS: <we simply will never know the degree in which American military presence has deterred other nations from agression. > True. At times New Zealand has contemplated invading the Americas [both north and south], and the rest of the Pacific Rim, and creating the Pacific People's Paradise. But we have been deterred by the USA Force de Frappe. That's why NZ has been so keen on banning weapons of mass destruction for a few decades - especially nukes. I'm still working on it by subverting everyone via cyberspace. I'm going Global! Similarly, the threat of New Zealand's armed might has kept the USA, China, Indonesia and Oz at bay. They have obviously been scared of us for decades [now centuries].