Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (112570)	8/24/2003 4:00:04 AM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Yeah, yeah, that's what somebody else said. In fact, if you think about how the USA works, it's more like that than the middle east mayhem. The future is made up of imagination and the present is that imagination converted to reality. Dumb generals and unimaginative people forever fight previous battles and live in paradigms past. You know the definition of insanity - repeating the same old thing, hoping for something different. Luddites cling to how things are. It's not they who make things good. I notice that there's a mindless opposition to anything with the words United Nations attached. A kind of unreasoned Pavlovian drooling reaction, from many if not most. It's relatively simple to see that federations such as the USA work a lot better than competing, warring states, with no mechanisms other than war to resolve contentious issues and common property ownership. The USA has grown over the centuries. Most Americans seem to be quite happy with such a federation. It really shouldn't stretch imagination to think of improvements to the current mess, to mimic in part at least, the sort of system the USA and other federal systems operate. Mqurice PS Unfortunately, due to inability to read or simple stupidity, somebody else will point out to me some deficiencies of the United Nations as proof that what I'm saying is wrong. To save them typing, yes, a car is not a truck. Neither is a car a caravan, though both do indeed have the words car in them and they do travel on highways. They should avoid getting spittle on the screen when they see the word car or letters UN. They should seek meaning.