From: kurkku@hassuserveri.fi   
      
   "James A. Donald"  kirjoitti   
   viestissä:cqssa4h91uj3u1fkm1189jqfe7jngr21kc@4ax.com...   
   > Anton   
   >> Communism did not die because of some Latin American   
   >> or Central Asian proxy war, but because it does not   
   >> work as a socio-economic model   
   >   
   > Communism worked fine at rounding up vast masses of   
   > conscript cannon fodder, sending them on a one way trip   
   > to the front, and forcing them into enemy guns.  This   
   > brought them victory in the civil war, and then in   
   > numerous other wars, creating a bandwagon effect, that   
   > the commies were inevitably going to win, which in turn   
   > led people to start rationalizing lots of reasons why   
   > commies winning was good thing, that they were the good   
   > guys.   
   >   
   > When communists stopped winning, in part because we   
   > smartened up and set to avoiding wars of conscript   
   > cannon fodder, suddenly people stopped rationalizing   
   > lots of reasons why commies winning was good thing.   
   >   
   > We observe a similar phenomenon now that the Al Quaeda   
   > has been defeated in Iraq. Suddenly people care   
   > considerably less about conditions in Gitmo, and   
   > Pakistan is more willing to take on Bin Laden in   
   > Pakistan - or at least is doing a more vigorous pretense   
   > of going after Bin Laden.   
   >   
   > --   
   >  ----------------------   
   > We have the right to defend ourselves and our property, because   
   > of the kind of animals that we are. True law derives from this   
   > right, not from the arbitrary power of the omnipotent state.   
   >   
   > http://www.jim.com/      James A. Donald   
      
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