Harry Pollard wrote:
>
> Ray,
>
> Why do all these great immigrants come to the USA?
>
[snip]
My answer: Because the USA has done a very good job
of making sure America is the place where
You don't know how good it is 'til you eat some place else.
(--Ponderosa Steakhouse)
If there was any prospect of anything good
in "Communism", we did our best to make sure it had
as little chance as possible of ever seeing the light.
Maybe Josef Stalin was a CIA agent, just like
George W Bush may be an agent of Al Qaeda -- at least
from the perspective of the objective effects of their
acts.
But that's not the whole story. Another part of the story
is exemplified by an interaction I had
with a manager I had, where I pointed out to him/her
"this really neat book about computer user interfaces..."
(the book was more concerned with empowering users than
with the effect of screen-refresh
rate on their neuro-muscular twitches on their
"productivity" in doing what they are told). Manager's
response: "Oh -- that's the *Scandanavian* model."
So whenever it does happen that we have not destroyed
all evidence that we are not the best, we reject the
question -- Just like George Tenet explained to
the Senate that "911" was not an intelligence failure,
so they should not ask him why "911" was an intelligence
failure!
And, let's face it, America is a *lot* less worse than a
lot of other places. That is empirically verifiable.
From those to whom much has been given,
much should be expected.
--
Yes, Bobby and Ted, let us ask not what our country can
do for us. Ask what we can do for our country.
(--corrupted quote)
\brad mccormick
