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To: goldsnow who wrote (10418)	6/5/1999 10:25:00 AM
From: John Lacelle	Respond to of 17770

goldsnow, Good point. I just read the book "The Arrogance of Power" by Senator J. William Fullbright. It was quite interesting how the Senator wrote a book in 1966 that fully explained how the Viet Nam war was going to fail. He pointed out that powerful nations in the past had fallen because they began to confuse power with moral authority. It seems that Bill Clinton has made this error in his thinking. He believes that because he has the bombs, he is capable of issuing the moral authority. Nations such as Rome and Sparta had this same capacity for self-delusion. Clinton has fallen into the same mind game of those who have gone before him. He believes that simply because he can bomb most of the nations on this planet with impunity, he has the authority to do so. Bill Clinton has become a sorry excuse for a President. He leads not by example, but by intimidation. In the words of Albert Speer, the Minister of Defense for NAZI Germany, "You simply became what we were...". He was quite right. The allies finished the war by using the same methods developed by the NAZI war machine. The firebombing of Dresden for example, was just a giant oven. -John