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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (25099)11/12/2007 3:32:32 AM
From: elmatador  Respond to of 217769
 
They're trying to fall with grace. The ball of those countries has been so inflated that a plain crumbling a la USSR would be too much to be bear.

So they are trying to fall with grace. Can you imagine the outcome?

--(TJ would be the least of the problems)

--Can you imagine the Russians saying: We lost the cold war but we are up and running.

--Castro saying -from his death bed in a photo with Chaves dressed in a red shirt- "Cuba still standing" (althought in as bad health as Fidel).

--Can anyone bear Ahmadie after a crumbling? How do you think they react?

---Imagine the tapes of Ossie Bin Laden!

--The de-commissioned Forrestal that protects King George.

--The Argentineans having a go at the Malvinas/Falklands unimpeded.

--The ANZUS being dismantled and siging treaty of non-agression with the Chinese...



To: Maurice Winn who wrote (25099)11/12/2007 3:40:17 AM
From: elmatador  Respond to of 217769
 
Notice that we are civilized and do not trample on the guy who fell nor laugh about other people's fall from grace neither beat the guy when he's down for we know it is just the set of circumstances...

And by the way, when the Sweden were poorer than we were we gave them development aid in the end of the 19th century. Actually it was the Swedes who told me that.