At 09:26 AM 10/23/2002 -0500 Dan Minette wrote: >> You mean it is completely amazing to hope that Democracy and Free Markets >> might triumph over Totalitarianism, Autoritarianism, Repression, and >> Fanatacism?????? This is an opinion that I am to be ridiculed for? >> >> What's going on here? > >This last one makes more sense to me. NATO is a European-American >alliance. It excludes many other democracies, including large and/or >influential ones with a significant history of democracy as India and >Japan. One might then see NATO as a tool of European culture as much as >democracy.
That would be somewhat reasonable, and indeed, I wholeheartedly support admitting South Korea, Japan, Australia, and New Zealand into NATO - and India as soon as they settle the Kashmir thing. Unfortuantely, I cannot pull that conclusion out of Dave's actual words: >You want NATO to be the world gov? You cannot see how >self-satisfying that model is? MY SIDE GETS TO RULE! He's clearly not talking about the fact that Australia isn't in NATO. Interestingly enough, though, in a very little-noticed move this week, NATO radically altered their fundamental purpose, and are no longer going to stick solely to the "North Atlantic" region. JDG _______________________________________________________ John D. Giorgis - [EMAIL PROTECTED] People everywhere want to say what they think; choose who will govern them; worship as they please; educate their children -- male and female; own property; and enjoy the benefits of their labor. These values of freedom are right and true for every person, in every society -- and the duty of protecting these values against their enemies is the common calling of freedom-loving people across the globe and across the ages. -US National Security Policy, 2002 _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l