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From the Phillipines, via my IBMTEXT alumni list (URL) found it quite interesting... however I also agree in part with some of the responses to it from that list, here's one in its entireity: - start - That is certainly a third-world editorial. The (...) (23 years ago, 28-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) I am willing to agree with this much. Would doing nothing as far as foreign policy goes be too difficult a course of action to follow for some reason? I say screw the rest of the world -- feed the U.S.! We could change the face of the U.S. (...) (23 years ago, 28-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) I waffle on this. Long time readers know I usually lean in the jeffersonian "honest friendship for all, entangling alliances with none" direction but I've been somewhat swayed lately by those who argue that 200 years on, with ICBM transit (...) (23 years ago, 28-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) I guess some (many?) cave-men said[1] something similar when they started living together in communities, and others later when communities started living in states. ROSCO [1] or grunted? made their feelings known somehow, anyway... (23 years ago, 29-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Richard, Did you forget this - :-) ? It can be argued that your president was moving your nation in that direction up until September 11th. Did you view that as a success? Further, take a look at how much the USA has relied on overseas help (...) (23 years ago, 29-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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Let me first go over the article itself, before I comment on the response Larry posted. (...) One explanation, yes. (...) Inside its borders, yes. (...) That gets to the point. (...) This argument leaves me behind ... (...) Very true. (...) Again (...) (23 years ago, 29-Oct-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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This is a quote from Kurt Vonnegut's 'Cats Craddle', written in 1963. I only read this recently, coincidentally enough around Sept11. "-People- are hated a lot of places. Claire pointed out in her letter that Americans, in being hated, were simply (...) (23 years ago, 17-Nov-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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