From: dmhills{at}ecomstation.com (Don Hills)

In article , "Gary Britt"
 wrote: |
|You obviously know more about New Zealand sheep than you do USA politics
and |the USA electorate.

They all involve sheep. What's not to know?

|> It's pretty clear that Bush is on a mission to spread democracy as widely
|> as possible by whatever means necessary, including military force.
|
|Not quite accurate.  Including Military Force only for those countries
that |are linked to terrorists and the peace and stability of terrorist
regions |would be much more accurate.

So you use military force if there's a whiff or terrorism involved, even
when it my not be the most effective means. Are you sure that's more
accurate than what I said?

|The USSR spread communisim in order to steal the labor, resources, money,
|wealth, liberty, and lives of the satellite state created thereby.  They
did |this in order to profit from the conquests, have fresh slaves for
their |labor camps, and to compensate for their continually failing
economic |system.
|
|The USA spreading democracy does so not for profit but for its own safety
|and at a considerable loss in terms of money and resources.  The USA does
it |for the benefit of the people freed, and for the benefit of the World.
|You're welcome by the way.

In what you wrote above, the words communism and democracy are largely
interchangeable depending on which ideology you believe in.

|Its the difference between good and evil, but these concepts are
apparently |too primitive for the modern liberal intelligentsia to grasp in
any |meaningful way.

They're not too primitive, they're too complex. Everyone has their
definitions of what is good and what is evil. There is little commonality
between these definitions.

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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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