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To: Peter Dierks who wrote (216849)	2/2/2005 1:16:45 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573513

For all but 10 years since Sudan gained independence from Great Britain in 1956, Sudan has been involved in bloody civil wars that have killed over 2 million people and displaced 4 million. Radical Islamists, mostly drawn from the country's minority Arab population, have killed or driven out black animists and Christians in a series of genocidal campaigns. Yet, the U.N. -- as it has in virtually every genocidal bloodbath that has occurred anywhere in the world since its founding in 1946 -- remains stymied from intervening in any meaningful way. Interesting how Townhall ignores who controls the purse strings of the UN and determine its course of action. Its the Security Council on which the US plays a significant role. So I ask you why has the Sec. Council not called for intervention in the Sudan?

To: Peter Dierks who wrote (216849)	2/2/2005 4:20:56 PM
From: Suma	Respond to of 1573513

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. After some research and help I found this site. It has an accompanying chart which cannot be copied and pasted but anyone who wants to see the delineations go into the site at the bottom of the article. From this I was able to confirm to my satisfaction that Hitler was in fact a Right Wing Conservative and not a liberal or socialist. Herewith: The Pournelle Chart, developed by Jerry Pournelle, is a 2-dimensional coordinate system used to distinguish political ideologies. It is similar to the Nolan Chart in that it is a two dimensional chart, but the X-axis (labeled Liberty) refers to your feelings toward state and centralised government (farthest right being state worship, farthest left being the idea of a state as the "ultimate evil" - the diagonal of the Nolan Chart), and the Y-axis (labeled Rationalism) referring to your belief in that problems in society can or will be solved once your ideology of choice is systematically implemented (top being complete confidence that your political ideology can manage the problems in the world, bottom being mindless adherence to your ideology of choice). "Leftist" ideologies, such as (American) liberalism, socialism and communism, tend to be placed in the upper right-hand quadrant of low liberty and high rationalism. Conservatism, fascism and Nazism are to be placed in the lower right hand quadrant of low liberty and low rationalism. Classical anarchists are in the lower left hand corner of high liberty and low rationalism. Libertarians and Objectivists are placed in the upper lefthand corner of high liberty and high rationalism. [edit] External links The Pournelle Political Axes (http://www.baen.com/chapters/axes.htm) Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pournelle_Chart"