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To: Lhn5 who wrote (19321)	11/10/2004 1:02:08 AM
From: Cogito Ergo Sum	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 312446

Larry, I had always thought that Americans and Canadians were pretty much on the same page. read this book. chapters.indigo.ca forget the commentary as being biased from the left and actually demonstrating some of that moral superiority or smugness Bob mentions. It's unimportant although sometimes humerous. The author is a reputable pollster and the devil is in the data... pretty interesting stuff and an easy read. Americans would do well to read it also if not too thin skinned. Like I said... The devil is in the data... You know... like charts don't lie... regards Kastel

To: Lhn5 who wrote (19321)	11/10/2004 1:48:39 AM
From: TrueScouse	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 312446

Larry: <Economic power being shifted towards Europe? How's that???> You took my post out of context. I said that: "The balance of power in the world is shifting rapidly, not only as a result of US foreign policy but also as a result of a major shift in economic power away from the US and towards Asia and Europe." So what's wrong with this statement? The health of the US current account is almost totally dependent on "foreigners" (especially the Chinese and Japanese) buying billions of USD-worth of bonds every month from now till kingdom come. What if they "choose" not to oblige? Is this not a major power shift in world economic terms? And meanwhile the Euro is trading at record highs against the USD and the charts show it's probably going far higher. I'm not suggesting a for-or-against scenario here -- just the current reality IMO. With respect to your other comments, I very much agree: <...the war on terrorism will never end. There will ALWAYS be individuals and groups that feel they have been dealt with unfairly and will choose the most dishonorable ways imaginable to express their displeasure....so staying a step ahead of whomever these parties might be, now and in the future, is a forever thing in my opinion.> This has been the experience of Europe and the rest of the world for many decades. But the fact that the US has recently been hit hard by this is not justification for waging war on specific countries and killing tens of thousands of people. Suppose the British reaction to the horrible IRA bombings in the UK (which killed hundreds of people) was to bomb Dublin and kill tens of thousands? How would the world have viewed such a reaction to terrorism? Terrorist acts have been common throughout the last 30 or 40 years -- the Red Brigades in Italy, the FLQ in Quebec, the Bader-Meinhoff (sp?) in Germany, ETA in Spain, the IRA in the UK, etc., but the response has not been invasion or mass assaults on the civilians of these countries or territories. Do you think that countries other than the US have no experience with "terrorism"? Sorry, but dream on... I think we do live in two different worlds in terms of the perception of what's going on out there. Sad, but there it is. Regards, Howy