RE: American Attitudes

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On Wed, 23 May 2001, Gautam Mukunda wrote:

> its essentials, the same policy.  One of the traditional critiques of
> democracies is that they can't plan for the long term.  Anyone who
> says that needs to explain the behavior of the United States - and, to
> a lesser extent, all of the governments of Western Europe - for the 44
> years of the Cold War.
Gautam,

long term is a very relative term.  I recall reading a Chinese (CCP)
leader stating somewhere or other that they had yet to see the real impact
of the French Revolution.  Long term?

Ibrahim Underwood