The Onion misses the point
Kevin Gowen
How much less peace would this planet have seen if Carter's foreign policy
had continued?
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Kevin Gowen
From 1973 to 2002, the warmongering USA sold $200 million in arms to Iraq,
accounting for 1% of Iraqi arms imports for that period. During the same
period, peace-loving UN Security Council members Russia, France, and China
sold $25.145 billion (57%), $5.595 billion (13%), and $5.192 billion (12%)
in arms to Iraq, respectively.
Source: Stockholm International Peace Research Institute
(Figures are trend-indicator values expressed in US dollars at constant
(1990) prices)
Declan Murphy
> http://www.theonion.com/onion3930/former_president.html
>
> How much less peace would this planet have seen if Carter's foreign policy
> had continued?
"Oh shut up".
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"As I write, highly civilized human beings are flying overhead, trying
to kill me. They do not feel any enmity against me as an individual, nor
I against them. They are "only doing their duty", as the saying goes.
Most of them, I have no doubt, are kind-hearted law-abiding men who
would never dream of committing murder in private life. On the other
hand, if one of them succeeds in blowing me to pieces with a well-placed
bomb, he will never sleep any the worse for it. He is serving his
country, which has the power to absolve him from evil" - George Orwell,
England Your England, 1941
Brett Robson
>
>http://www.theonion.com/onion3930/former_president.html
>
>How much less peace would this planet have seen if Carter's foreign policy
>had continued?
>
Honduras, El Salvador, Iran Contra fiascso, the Falklands War, that's just of
the top of my head. Of course we'd still be plagued by the dreaded "Evil Empire"
if it wasn't for Regean.
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"Wherever you go, you carry a message of hope - a message that is ancient and
ever new. In the words of the prophet Isaiah, 'To the captives, come out, and to
those in darkness, be free."' Bush II exhorting his soldiers on their Crusades.
"light the darkness of the entire world" Kita Ikki
mtfe...@netscape.net
> the top of my head. Of course we'd still be plagued by the dreaded "Evil Empire"
> if it wasn't for Regean.
Actually, Drucker wrote in ~1974 that within 15-20 years the USSR would
be bankrupt and forced to dissolve.
I thought he was nuts when I read that in 1985...
Mike