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To: TobagoJack who wrote (57839)	12/30/2004 3:08:20 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74559

<<<But military back-up is handy when dealing with the likes of Adolf, Stalin>> ... you see them around?> Yes. The 50th celebrations reminded me of a Nuremberg rally, complete with the Sieg Heil call by the crowd to the Great Leader. The complete subsuming of the individual to the glory of the state [which is really the Great Leader of the day]. Yiwu the Mad seems to divide the world clearly into the sacred superior Chinese beings and the low-life "westerners" and other plebs. Bubba Fred thinks people with certain jobs are lower beings. We've seen racism before and it's ugly, wrong and stupid. Racism and genocide were a good idea for millennia as tribal war determined successful DNA in the burgeoning Malthusian 10 children per woman eon before contraception, going back to our chimpoid ancestors. Men had to kill or be killed by neighbouring tribes. Women and territory were the prizes. That time has gone. War is now a catastrophe of megalomania without useful function. Unfortunately, megalomania remains a personal imperative of all too many people. Megalomania is just the olde, atavistic, alpha male business. Putin, Hu Jintao, and others, meet the requirements for florid megalomania syndrome. The PNAC is megalomania writ large. A New United Nations is what's needed. It's not on the horizon. Few are pushing for it. Most denigrate the idea. < told you once and a gizzilion times, war is best won without battle, and once engaged in, ends in quagmire. Do not let the ancient history of WWII mislead you on war's efficacy, that was an one-off event per age. You do not want to see another global war, for no winners are feasible. And so we are left with positioning, stratagem, and other acts requiring more thinking and less doing. > Precisely. Which means geopolitical solutions to the commons is required, as well as disputed ownership of property. Lots of thinking. Generally there's altogether too much action. Nike's slogan is not the way to run the world; "Just do it". Mqurice