[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Well, my history isn't that good,
I doubt that.
but I seem to recall something important
> happening around 1991 - a really big country falling apart, something like
> that? I might be wrong, but that might qualify as an "extraordinary event"
> that affects our view of the treaty :-)
It would be extraordinary indeed if something that happened 10 years ago
to qualify as the event that precipitated withdrawal. Especially an
event that by all accounts makes the likelihood of nuclear war far less
likely.
>
> Just as a side note - I would find the use of the term "Shrub" offensive if
> it weren't so pathetic. So you don't like him. I know that civility has
> become a purely conservative virtue nowadays - certainly judging by campus
> politics liberals stopped believing in it a long time ago - but that's
> really kind of sad, and it probably does more to explain why Bush won
> (when, given the economic background, Gore should have pulled 60% of the
> vote) than any other single factor.
>
My apologies, I really didn't mean any offense, the nickname has been
used on list before without comment. But I disagree that conservatives
have a corner on the civility market. It took me about 30 seconds to
find this:
http://www.ggordonliddyshow.com/letter/californians.htm
and I'm sure there's a lot more where that came from.
--
Doug
http://www.zo.com/~brighto
