[CTRL] A hard rain is going to fall.

2002-03-28 Thread Edward Britton
Source: http://www.nationalreview.com/hanson/hanson.shtml The 1930s, Again A hard rain is going to fall. By Victor Davis Hanson, author most recently of Carnage and Culture: Landmark Battles in the Rise of Western Power. March 25, 2002 8:30 a.m. n some ways in our war against the terrorists

Re: [CTRL] A hard rain is going to fall.

2002-03-28 Thread Joshua Tinnin
-Caveat Lector- This article ignores that Saddam's government is generally secular in nature, not Islamic, and that Saudi Arabia is haging on to Iraq as part and parcel of stability, as the US has done alternately with them and with Iran (which is also part of generating an amount of instability

Re: [CTRL] A hard rain is going to fall.

2002-03-28 Thread Edward Britton
Joshua: Hay, don't kill the messenger. I just passed it on. :-) Personally, and while agreeing with you at least in principle (in my saner moments), I'm a bit surprised we don't see even more of this neo-tribalistic sabre rattling. As for averting any coming conflict between us WASPS and the

Re: [CTRL] A hard rain is going to fall.

2002-03-28 Thread Joshua Tinnin
-Caveat Lector- - Original Message - From: Edward Britton [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hay, don't kill the messenger. I just passed it on. :-) No, not at all. Am always willing to discuss, but am also posting this to [EMAIL PROTECTED], as that is more suited to discussion, and there are no

Re: [CTRL] A hard rain is going to fall.

2002-03-28 Thread Edward Britton
Joshua: Hay, don't kill the messenger. I just passed it on. :-) No, not at all. Am always willing to discuss, but am also posting this to [EMAIL PROTECTED], as that is more suited to discussion, and there are no message limits (5 for the regular CTRL list on AOL) - there are subscription

Re: [CTRL] A hard rain is going to fall.

2002-03-28 Thread Joshua Tinnin
-Caveat Lector- OK, it seems we're on the same page, pretty much, but not that that was what was realy important, I just wasn't sure where you were coming from ... I don't want to get into tariffs either, as that wasn't what this article was about. Anyway, the advantage of being on [EMAIL