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To: TimF who wrote (4089)	12/30/2008 5:37:56 PM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 103300

Re: "and our piece is 1/5th of the pie" You made a couple of conceptual errors in your analogy. For one... you are assuming a 'steady state pie' (pies do not normally GROW, but nations do all the time - and at differing rates. <g>). Whereas, the economies (& the military potentials, etc.) of ALL THE WORLD'S NATIONS are constantly growing, or shrinking. Always in flux. So 'our piece of the pie' would be unlikely to be '1/5th.' (or any other exact fraction) except for at some discrete point-in-time. And --- if a couple of smaller nations band together and join up with a LARGER commercial rival of ours (unify their monetary systems, rationalize tariff structures behind a common new wall, etc., etc.) --- as we were discussing here. Then that most definitely represents an example of a commercial competitor gaining 'more heft' on the world stage, and advancing relatively in 'strength measures'. The sum is* greater then just the individual parts. :-)