On Thu, 11 Oct 2007 16:58:57 -0700,
"EvelynVogtGamble(Divamanque)" wrote:
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>Geoff Miller wrote:
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>> William Black writes:
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>>>You don't understand.
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>>>We don't have a problem.
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>>>You do...
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>> Yeah, we have a problem, all right. That's how we got to be
>> the most culturally, economically and militarily influential
>> nation in the history of the planet,
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>Hmmmm....
>1) We may have improved somewhat since the early twentieth
>century, but to the rest of the world (and to many of our
>own citizens) the U.S. is still a nation of comparative
>cultural barbarians!
Oh, yes. The Europeans displayed their culture in 1914 and again
in 1936 (Spanish civil war, a most cultural affair), and 1935
(Italy invades Ethiopia, apparently to help the Ethipians learn
to appreciate opera), and let's not neglect all the European
support for Hitler's anti-semitism, shall we?.
Who else? The pre-war Japanese?
>2) If by "economically" influential, you mean outsourcing
>jobs to third world countries and exporting such home grown
>products as McDonald's and Starbucks, you may be right, but
>it's certainly nothing to BRAG about!
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>3) I think Nazi Germany still holds the record there - and
>if we ccontinue in the vein the present administration has
>started, we may well end up the same way, too. (Even many
>of our own citizens regard Bush, Cheney, et al, as war
>criminals!)
So far, neither approaches the likes of Hitler and Tojo. Or even
Mussolini. Or Franco.
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