From: "Adam Flinton" 


"William F. Zachmann"  wrote in
message news:3e70c9b4$1{at}w3.nls.net...
> Depends on the relative retaliatory capacities of the participants.  As an
> old Chinese philosopher once said [reaching for my 1966 first edition copy
> of his 'little red book']:
>
> Every Communist must grasp the truth, "Political power grows out of the
> barrel of a gun."
>
>
>   "Problems of War and Strategy" (November 6, 1938),
Selected Works,  Vol.
> II, p. 224.
> Mao understood that quite well.  So (luckily) does President Bush.  And
Tony
> Blair does, too.  Can't say as much for the French.
>

Have you read the Prince? It was an essential part of the WinCol Div
(Divinity) course along with locke & rousseau et al.

Re the Political power bit......really political power comes from the
crinkle of dollar bills (noone gives guns away someone always has to pay
for them)

Adam



> All the best,
>
> will
>
> "Adam Flinton"  wrote in message
> news:3e703a34$1{at}w3.nls.net...
> > & then others get even back & you get even back again
& then others get
> even
> > back again &  the circle repeats.
> >
> >
> > Adam
> >
> > "William F. Zachmann" 
wrote in message
> > news:3e6fc782$1{at}w3.nls.net...
> > > We don't get mad, Phil.  We get even.  Get used to it.
> > >
> > >
> > > "Phil Payne" 
wrote in message
> > > news:3E6E4DF8.F849C266{at}isham-research.com...
> > > > http://www.cnn.com/2003/ALLPOLITICS/03/10/congress.france.ap/
> > > >
> > > > "Despite plenty of criticism of France's
resistance to U.S. military
> > > action
> > > > in Iraq, Congress so far has done little to move legislation
punishing
> > the
> > > > country for its anti-war stance."
> > > >
> > > > PUNISHING?!?
> > > >
> > > > --
> > > >   Phil Payne
> > > >   http://www.isham-research.com
> > > >   +44 7785 302 803
> > > >   +49 173 6242039
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
>
>

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