From: "Mark" 


"Geo."  wrote in message
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> "Phil Payne" 
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>> There is a deep-seated American urge to respond to every world event - at
>> home or abroad - with violence.
>
> Well that certainly is an improvement on the oil is the motivator line you
> usually use. So now we're just mean by nature?

Yes, those "mean" Navy ships "violently" entered the
arena to provide relief and hospital services immediately after the Tsunami
last year too...

But, let's pretend that event was nonexistent, and thousands of other
examples of aid at billions of dollars don't actually exist either (we
might as well, they do); it would still be better to be meanies than to
hide under the bed like they do.

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