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To: Ilaine who wrote (204691)	9/29/2006 1:45:22 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Interesting post. It's great being ignorant because there's always so much to find out, with new ideas always available. I didn't know that either: <Also, it's true that the American revolutionaries sided with the French revolutionaries, who were inspired by the American success, although, they really sided with the Marquis de Lafayette, who showed us how to fight the British, was made an honorary citizen of the United States, and was an early member and hero of the French Revolution. It is said, and is no doubt at least partly true, that the US came into WWI to pay our debt to France, proclaiming, "Lafayette, we are here!" > But it makes sense. It was more of help to France than to Britain [which incidentally was helped, rather than deliberately]. A double insult for Louis XVI to have helped the American evil-doer criminal racist revolutionaries do down King George III only to have them turn on him and help in his demise by helped Lafayette. As I said, helping the Americans was like helping Osama and even more so than I realized. Incidentally, I suppose the Lafayette shopping centre I visited was the same Lafayette [it's a major brand in France]. It's ironic that now France is considered a bunch of Freedom Fries and cheese-eating socialist surrender monkeys unfit for American association. Will the USA send back the Statue of Liberty one of these days? Incidentally, again, I surprised once upon a time, wandering in Paris, to come across a mini statue of Liberty [which, being astute, I recognized as very like the big one in New York's entrance]. I hadn't known that France was the donor and that the big one was a copy. There are many nooks and crannies of history. I supose every single word I use is replete with history, which I mindlessly ignore or am oblivious to, even while using them and that history. Am I merely an echo of times gone by, rattling around ignorantly in my own little cage of what history has dealt me? Maybe not entirely, but there seems more than a little of that. <it's almost impossible to calculate the future effect of actions today. > True, the law of unintended consequences is powerful. But we have to try. The whole purpose of the big lump above our eyebrows is to predict the future and change it by deciding to do something today. Those of us who get it right, or are lucky, go on to reproduce our big foreheads in the next generation. Doing nothing and not predicting isn't an option. Well, it is, but it's a fatal one. On the expansion of the USSR into Pakistan. I think they were running out of steam by then and wouldn't have been invading Pakistan. It was interesting to see USSR drive into Afghanistan and a friend and I at the time got our maps out and were figuring how far it was to the sea, which seemed to be a goal of the USSR move. They were soon bogged down though, with those clever little Stingers wreaking havoc. I note that General Dostum was on the USSR side. Now he is on the USA side. As I've said, he's a mini-Saddam. He even looks similar, though more rotund. It's odd that the USA would choose such a bloke as a friend. Gives me the creeps. I suspect that Osama is a nicer chap. There is history still to go with Dostum. Watch that space. It's a stretch to say India is well-off, though I suppose it's less poverty-stricken than decades ago. As they buy nagical CDMA they should improve. And I can't think why I mistook you for part Irish [must have confused you with somebody else]. Mqurice