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To: Dayuhan who wrote (12171)	8/27/1998 5:24:00 AM
From: Michael Sphar	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71178

There I think we part company. I can't think of a regime anywhere that the US successfully guided to anything other than corrupt fiefdom. But that sounds like your goal of addiction. Nations have heritage and characteristics chiseled over the ages by the ravages of peoples, time, neighbors, geography and assorted other factors. The rule of law is a darn difficult fruit to grow. Look at our neighbor Mexico. How much in the way of guidance and dollars have been sent there ? The wealth of potential residing there is enormous. Yet for all its agricultural, mineral and industrial potential, it has never risen to the greatness that could be. Personally I'd rather see the US stay away for neo-colonialism. The police action in Vietnam was fought for the wrong reasons with the wrong goals. It took years for the US military to accept that sentence. Thankfully it has. Corruption existed from the top down. Johnson's wife owned a big piece of Flying Tigers, a major beneficiary to that long protracted period of strife and misery. That disgusts me as does fighting undeclared wars. Now our intern wagging president has flirted with embroiling us in another. I think this deserves reasoned debate and deliberation. And darned if our Congress is studiously ignoring the subject, to their own potential detriment. The next step in the escalation of terror after blowing up an embassy, might just be taking out a symbolic city and as Freddy pointed out privately to me earlier, DC or NYC make for pretty good east coast targets. I think we need a valid and legitimate declaration of war, and the collective will of the people to prosecute same, in any manner deemed appropriate by the military thinkers in place at the time. Oh yes, and led by a legitimate Commander-In-Chief. One that at least understands the command dress right, dress.