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Pastimes : WORLD WAR III -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Neocon who wrote (614)	3/27/1999 6:05:00 PM
From: D. Long	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 765

Hitler was wrong about a lot of things, eh? America is really an amazing experiment. There is a commonality shared by diverse people in institutions which have their grounds in the innate dignity and worth of the individual and equality before the law. Institutions which limit interference by government and allow achievement on an individual level have produced unprecedented wealth and prosperity, by people who were considered the mutts and imbeciles of Europe and the world. So much for inherent superiority of blood, or inherent inferiority. Ideally, the American culture consists of a common culture of shared institutions with the freedom to practice one's own religious and native cultural habits in the privacy of one's own "sphere of important interests," untouchable by person or government. Its the shared interest in common institutions which bind us together as Americans. When our differences begin to become more important than our commonalities, a sort of ethnic Balkanization appears whose manifestation is a war of special interest groups on Capital Hill battling for special privelages, benefits, and "reparations." Hitler was definately wrong. Too much of a concern with "blood" may tear us apart.