-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 At 11:21 AM -0800 11/22/04, John Young wrote: >Every application of US military might since WW2 has failed.
Korea. Yes. Korea. Hell, the entire Cold War, John. Including your beloved Viet Nam, which was a *battle*, not a war in same. When Castro, and North Korea, etc., finally fall, then the cold war will be over. Heck, when China's current gerontocracy dies off and has an *election*, the war will be over. They're already starting to have private property. So much for "communal" ownership. Once property is completely transferrable, the last nail will be in the coffin. Just because, like some ancient techtonic seafloor, your political compass ossified in the general direction of Moscow, ca 1965, doesn't mean that the magnetic pole's there anymore, John. Heck, that pole's actually flipped polarity, last time I looked. The current war against western civilization started in the 1920's, when Qutb started writing his Moslem triumphalist blather in reaction to the complete collapse of the Turkish Caliphate in the wake of World War I. It'll be finished when the residents of its modern equivalent has property rights and personal freedom. As for the the article that started this thread, I'm merely pointing out that we're entering a period of *Republican* triumphalism. That it has gotten completely up your nose is no surprise, of course. Cheers, RAH - -- - ----------------- R. A. Hettinga <mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED]> The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation <http://www.ibuc.com/> 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire' -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 1308 iQA/AwUBQaI/cMPxH8jf3ohaEQIWSACdFGd11vOhNiHxP95Cg/Aulmqjk7sAoJhT gr46RwVQgpaBsW3ILgZ3jjOy =s5VA -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
