From: "Mark" 


"Don Hills"  wrote in message
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> In article , "Gary Britt"

> wrote:
>>Another brilliant and highly inspirational speech.
>
> Who do you think is going to win the next election? Consider this:
> Bush can't stand. Normally, the VP would stand but Cheney has already said
> he won't. The party currently has no credible candidates coming up.
> Bush knows full well that the party is unlikely to win next time, so he's
> pushing his and his cronies' agenda through regardless and leaving the
> long-term consequences to be borne by the next administration. Party time
> for now but you're going to wake up after the next election with a hell of
> a
> hangover, having trashed your country, economy and international goodwill.

I have no idea who will emerge to run on the GOP ticket at this point in
time. I disagree completely with the rest of your conjecture though.


> It's pretty clear that Bush is on a mission to spread democracy as widely
> as
> possible by whatever means necessary, including military force. In what
> way
> is this different from the old USSR's mission to spread communism by
> whatever means necessary, including military force? (Let's leave aside
> debates about the relative ideological merits of democracy versus
> communism
> for now.)

The US has been promoting democracy since (and including) our inception --
it is in our blood. Most, if not all of our presidents, have at least
talked a good game, fewer have acted on it. Bush is a man of action --
driven by the events of the era (9/11) to more aggressively promote our
agenda than he otherwise might have. It's too bad we had to wait this long
to do so, we may have avoided a number of tragedies had we started earlier
(before Rwanda, for instance.

As to the difference between spreading democracy and communism? Quite
simple, the USSR was less interested in spreading it vs. becoming the
controlling entity once it was so. Despite the rantings of the left about
the "evil imperialistic" designs of that big bad old US of A, you
can count on two hands and one foot how many imperialistic conquests we've
made (and they're all miniscule islands in various oceans) so that charge
is just so much BS.

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