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To: cosmicforce who wrote (14398)	12/5/2004 1:13:30 AM
From: Sun Tzu	Respond to of 20773

>> I hope the "American Dream" is not as dead as you say. This was not my idle conjecture; there was a recent study/poll that concluded this. I don't have it handy but I think it was in yahoo news, so you should be able to use yahoo to search for it. >> Perhaps, ironically, so is Machiavelli, but I think he was sorely misunderstood. I agree completely. I could have chosen that for my handle, but I did not want the negative connotations. Without exaggeration, Machiavelli is the father of modern political science. >> In the the Art of War, the topic is about establishing relationships and avoiding war, finding the reasons people would do you harm and diffusing them. We don't see much of that these days, do we? Yes I agree. I think one of the reason for this is that the people who make the war and peace decisions are too far from the reality of war. Not only this makes them too trigger happy and set in very bloody wars, it also creates incoherence between various aspects of foreign policy of which war is only one. ST [edit: I suggest you diversify your currency base for your retirement]