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To: epicure who wrote (13190)	10/21/2004 2:17:43 PM
From: Raymond Duray	Respond to of 20773

X, Thanks for that very interesting post. The only thing I would add to the mix is to suggest that Reagan inherited our Afghanistan policy from the Carter Administration which had actually initiated the de-stabilization of the Afghani regime prior to the Soviet intervention, fair.org thus prompting the Soviets to attempt to come in and stabilize the situation. The pity of this was that the slightly left of center government in Kabul in 1979 was doing good work for the citizens of the country, and was therefore unacceptable to American Imperialism. Similarly to the way we went in and wrecked Iraq, which was the most prosperous and progressive Arab nation in the late 1970s. These two countries, along with Guatemala, Haiti and other Latin American countries shows a clear pattern of U.S. intervention designed to de-stabilize and impoverish countries around the globe, for the sake of maintaining (nominally U.S. based) globalist corporate dominance across the planet. * As to Cheney at the University of Chicago, I don't believe this is correct. Cheney did his graduate work on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. It turns out we were both there at the same time. He, assiduously avoiding Viet Nam with his sixth deferment, and me, on the barricades trying to stay out of the hell of Viet Nam by helping to end the war. * Re: So they tried to sell the idea that the E£vil Empire was SO far ahead of us in weapons, we could not SEE the weapons, because they were so super secretly good. To be fair to Reagan, it should be pointed out that it was the Democrat Jack Kennedy who exploited a phantom "missile gap" in the 1960 Presidential race to help him overcome Richard Nixon who, to his credit, did not over-inflate the threat from the Soviets. The lesson here? That the American public are remarkably gullible when it comes to politicians making false claims about foreign enemies. *** Re: History is fascinating is it not? I love this quote from President Harry Truman: "The only thing that is new in life is the history that you don't know."

To: epicure who wrote (13190)	10/21/2004 11:00:21 PM
From: Ron	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 20773

LET ME SEE if I have this right. The Republicans are now accusing the Democrats of being insensitive to gay Americans? Or to one gay American at least? After John Kerry mentioned Mary Cheney in the third debate, talk radio hosts finally found a lesbian they wanted to protect. Even the homophobic wing of cable TV rallied to the support of a family with a gay offspring. Meanwhile, Dick Cheney described himself as "a pretty angry father." And Lynne Cheney said of the senator: "This is not a good man." boston.com dearmary.com