From: "Gary Wiltshire" 

On Sat, 05 Feb 2005 18:20:49 +1200, Don Hills  wrote:

> 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.)
>

It's a question of priorities.  Go after the threats first.  The friendlies
will mutate in time like South Korea and Taiwan did.

--
Gary Wiltshire

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