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In a message dated 10/10/01 12:50:37 PM, vincent.k@... writes:

>>The US in particular, and to a lesser extent England, Canada, Australia
>and
>>others have paid the price - not only in money but in the deaths of their
>>young men (55,000 of my generation in Vietnam, 30,000 in Korea, 300,000
>in
>>WWII, etc)- to make the world how it is today
>
>Thank you very much America, especially considering how the world is 
>today :-(((


Imagine how worse it might be if Hitler, Tojo, Stalin, Krushev or Mao had 
fullfilled their wishes. Instead of working on music, you might be working 14 
hours days in an armament factory for the glory of some great leader or 
another. 



>Seriously... A country declares war for expanding or protecting its 
>economic power, the rest is propaganda. You should read Kool Musick's 

Its dangerous to generalize to all peoples, in all situations, in all wars. 
Thats like saying all men and women enter into relationships to get sex. Its 
an oversimplification which ignores a wide range of variation in human 
thoughts and needs. 


>post more attentively. All the refutations to your fairytales are 
>there, in a brilliant synthesis.

I take a personal affront to labeling the deaths of half a million Americans 
fighting wars which were started by others, as fairytales. The US used to be 
a very isolationist country in first half of this century. Even in 1940 about 
90% of the people were opposed to going to war - hoping that somehow the war 
in Europe and Asia would not affect us. It was the same for WWI. We tried the 
'bury your head in the sand' approach but it didn't work.