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To: Rolla Coasta who wrote (2765)	3/22/1999 3:52:00 AM
From: Tom	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 2951

OT Hi, Ernest. Good word, chump. I don't use it often enough. <g> ----- If the US business firms want to make money for themselves in China, why the US politicians are worried so much? My guess would be that some have begun to see there are certain drawbacks associated with a laissez-faire approach to international commerce. The Council on Foreign Relations wised-up a couple of years back, admitting as much in their bi-monthly Foreign Affairs magazine. Talking about the US military being so closed to some nations and posting some kind of threats to them, those nations really have to be worried. In the Korean War, B-29 bombers were sent to bomb the civilian in North Korea... Ernest, they were assigned to bomb civilians? That was their mission? ...and some US politicians even suggested to use atomic bombs to bomb Communist China. That's really getting everyone into nerves. Everyone? Thailand is not nervous or worried. Neither does it appear that Japan, Singapore or Taiwan are nervous about the U.S.? Over 200,000 Filipinos died in the revolt; yet I don't believe they fear we will invade and begin killing them again anytime soon. No wonder so many nations want to develop THE bomb. In the Vietnam War, there were reports saying US troops killed civilians who were thought to help the VC. My point really is...if people serve in military or run offices in politics, there will be NO SUCH GOOD GUYS among those people. In military, you are trained to be aggressive to kill enemies. In politics, you have to know how to rise in power and, more or less, abuse it. I understand your point. That pretty much leaves us. Doesn't it? There is a common thread running through all the wars you've mentioned. One that has tattered the fabric of our nation. Force the legislative and executive branches into strict adherence of the Constitution and you remove the thread that weakened the fabric. Pat....don't start another cold war. Don't even say there's a "cultural conflict" within US society. Today's US society is at least better than the one in the 60's. We live in a society of factions, too many special interests and too few common ones. It's been going down-hill for a long while now. Hmmm, tax time is coming. Let me see how much tax money I have to pay for those US politicians playing their games. Pat and other US politicians....spend my tax money wisely. Building a star war defense system is way better than building another Lewinsky's trail. Did you know the same year the federal income tax was instituted was the same year the Federal Reserve regained control of the banking system, U.S. monetary and interest rate policy? How very coincidental. Later Later. -----