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To: Elsewhere who wrote (125183)	2/27/2004 7:12:28 AM
From: NightOwl	Respond to of 281500

JJ... It's a little known fact, but true, that one is far better off to forget one's "mistakes." <Hoo?> Oh, I know. There's the continual lip service given to "knowing history or being condemned yada, yada, yada..." But we all know that's a croc. <g> In the end we are all "condemned, yada, yada..." and the only benefit to the study of history is in the joy of examining the "mistakes" of others. <Hoo><Hoo> 0\|0

To: Elsewhere who wrote (125183)	2/27/2004 9:42:37 AM
From: PartyTime	Respond to of 281500

Some interesting excerpts: WARMONGERS (Wolfowitz, Perle, Feith, et. al.): uexpress.com news.bbc.co.uk nybooks.com antiwar.com pbs.org rense.com pbs.org pbs.org pbs.org counterpunch.org amconmag.com amconmag.com fpp.co.uk

To: Elsewhere who wrote (125183)	3/2/2004 3:05:47 PM
From: Elsewhere	Respond to of 281500

[Russia:] A Normal Country By Andrei Shleifer and Daniel Treisman From the March/April 2004 issue of Foreign Affairs. foreignaffairs.org New York Times March 2, 2004 nytimes.com Summary: Conventional wisdom in the West says that post-Cold War Russia has been a disastrous failure. The facts say otherwise. Aspects of Russia's performance over the last decade may have been disappointing, but the notion that the country has gone through an economic cataclysm and political relapse is wrong--more a comment on overblown expectations than on Russia's actual experience. Compared to other countries at a similar level of economic and political development, Russia looks more the norm than the exception.