From: dmhills{at}attglobal.net (Don Hills)

In article , "Gary
Wiltshire"  wrote:
>
>OK, I'll play.  In 2006 Cheney resigns after yet another heart attack.
>Bush names Condoleezza Rice as his replacement.  The Senate Democrats crap
>their trousers.
>
>Rice wins the presidency in 2008 with black voters crossing old lines in
>numbers not seen since Reconstruction.

I hope someone keeps this place around in some form as Geo has done with
the Canopus archive and the Barkto archives, it'll be very interesting to
look back and see.

>The difference is that we are not going after all the dictators --
>principally limiting ourselves to those we see as a threat and/or in a
>strategic position to influence entire regions by non-military means.

Some of the dictators are aligned / friendly with the US even though they
are also in a position to "influence entire regions". I don't see
you being in a big hurry to go after them. (Look at the SE Asia region for
example.)

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Don Hills    (dmhills at attglobaldotnet)     Wellington, New Zealand
It's ironic that people who are too smart to engage in politics are
governed by people who are not as smart.

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