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To: MrLucky who wrote (78170)	10/16/2004 8:54:59 PM
From: SBHX	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793841

60 to 80 percent of people in Northern European countries I wonder if people understood how many people viewed the US unfavorably back when the Berlin Wall was still up. There were daily marches, movement of the hands of the doomsday clock towards midnight (remember that one?) as Reagan and Thatcher embarked on their mission to destroy the evil of their time --- communism. I have no doubt, 60-80% is a very good estimate of people who viewed US unfavorably in those days. Of the people in europe who were in anti-nuclear reagan effigy burning marches, how many wept with joy when they saw the Berlin Wall come tumbling down? As for the bitter loony left, the well-schooled ones are the people who could not live with how complete their ideologies were torn down first by Reagan and Thatcher. These idealists, some among the most intelligent people in the world, never moved past that humiliation. Chomsky, LeCarre today, are very unhappy people. I remember the violent street riots in england over the draconian reforms imposed by Thatcher's government. While Thatcher dismantled the welfare state in england, france and others did not. Today, the UK enjoys robust economic growth, with unemployment less than 5%. Meanwhile France and Germany deal with unemployment more than double that at almost 10%. Midnight never did come for that doomsday clock. History has judged that for men like Reagan and Thatcher, it is better to stand on good principles than to sway with the changing sands of public opinion. It is better to do what is right and disliked than to be liked and wrong.