From: Jeremy Bradley (jeremyb@nor.com.au)
Date: Fri 02 May 2003 - 10:41:53 GMT
At 12:39 PM 30/04/03 -0500, you wrote:
>> > Hey Guys
>> > Don't blame me for starting this. I wanted to talk about memetic
>> > ice-cream flavours.
>>
>> Lol ;)
Snip......................
>> To close can I just add that my objection is solely to a bag of
>> policies and those that promote them, not to any creed, people or
>> state per se.
>>
>> Cheers, Chris.
>>
>Hokay. I would just like to point out that the US had to play dirty pool
>with friendly dictators in order to effectively contend with the Soviet bloc
>in the world arena, where they were doing the same thing in spades.
>Once their totalitarian hegemony crumbled, that unfortunate necessity
>was removed, and our post-Soviet interventions have been mainly
>about toppling despots and providing needed humanitarian aid.
>Virtuous interventions (or attempts at them in the third case, or urging
>and support for them in the last one) since then: Bosnia, Kosovo,
>Somalia, Afghanistan, Iraq, Haiti, Panama, East Timor. Also notice that
>the majority of these were in assistance to, and not in oppression of,
>Muslims.
>>
I'll go back to lurking again if you boys can't start talking memes instead
of tit-for-tat one-upmanship on who was the biggest impediment to global
peace and justice over the last fifty years.
At least get my name off this strand.
Jeremy Bradley
3200 Oxley Hwy Wauchope 2446
Phone:02 65856652 or 02 65856134
E-mail: jeremyb@nor.com.au
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