Gorbachov is reported to have said after the meeting in Iceland, (about Reagan) "...sometimes you look into a person's eyes and....you see nothing."
arthur -----Original Message----- From: Ray Evans Harrell [mailto:mcore@;nyc.rr.com] Sent: Saturday, October 19, 2002 10:47 PM To: Brad McCormick, Ed.D.; Harry Pollard Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: addendum Re: whose ghetto ? (Opportunities lost and found) Gee Harry, I would hate to think that was true about old Ronnie. That could make him the most evil politician in America since Jackson and one should remember that Stalin killed 11 million Kulaks, Pol Pot killed 3.5 million Doctors, teachers and other citified professionals who couldn't live in his countryside, Hitler killed 7 million Jews, Gypsies and Homosexuals plus a few others who protested. Ronnie's conscious action and covert omission could cause the death of billions. If that is "knowing where he was and where he was going" then we have seen the true face of evil and he looks like a cheap used car salesman. GWB is just a poor little rich boy playing cowboy. Now you want to see another one, then take a look dear old Fred Thompson. That empty head could destroy the world. But they aren't unique in American history. Harry, I would suggest a couple of web sites for you. http://www.ratical.org/many_worlds/6Nations/FF.html#TOC and you could check out the source at: http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/B/bfranklin/franktxt.htm Ray Evans Harrell ----- Original Message ----- From: "Harry Pollard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Ray Evans Harrell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Brad McCormick, Ed.D." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, October 19, 2002 10:15 PM Subject: Re: addendum Re: whose ghetto ? (Opportunities lost and found) > Ray, > > I accidently heard on radio today Richard Reeves being interviewed by > Michael Kingsley. > > Reeves is doing a book on Reagan. He said that Reagan knew where he was and > where he was going. He had a > "grasp of history". He said that Bush is a competent politician, but has no > grasp of history. > > What do you think? > > Harry > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------- > > > Ray wrote: > > >----- Original Message ----- > >From: "Brad McCormick, Ed.D." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >To: "Ray Evans Harrell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Sent: Saturday, October 19, 2002 7:44 PM > >Subject: Re: addendum Re: whose ghetto ? (Opportunities lost and found) > > > > > > > Ray Evans Harrell wrote: > > > [snip] > > > > I lived through > > > > the Cold War and saw Reagan blow his opportunity to dis-arm the Soviet > >Union > > > [snip] > > > > > > Can you please elaborate on what you think Reagan could/should > > > have done? I'm interested to see if there's something > > > I have missed (i.e., been blinded to). > > > >America worked after the 2nd world war to fix the mistakes of the first both > >with our own soldiers and with the conference at Versailles after the first > >world war. If we wanted to prove ourselves better then we should have > >also had some idea of what to do with the collapse that we facilitated. > >That lack of imagination is what we are paying for just as Hitler was the > >payback for the terror at the Versailles conference. Its not a football > >game where you can afford to just go home after you "win." > > > >America's ignorance of historical process is the most appalling loss that > >our historical illiteracy gives us. We constantly "lift our legs" on > >young countries that act as all young countries have always acted. Mass > >murders, corruption, aggressive salesmanship of their own "specialness." > >All things that America did as well as the communists, the tyrants of the > >world and all other types of sleaze. The only way that we can be > >self-righteous about this is to be profoundly ignorant of our own history as > >a Nation. America killed, slaughtered, massacred, enslaved, imprisoned, > >raped and out right murdered in the neighborhood of 60 million Native > >Americans, Africans, Chinese and others throughout the first seventy years > >of America's existence. There was nothing that America could say that > >would excuse the "Pol Pot like" movement of millions that ended in their > >deaths whether intentionally or unintentionally. If America caused the > >demise of world Communism with nary a thought in their brain with what to > >replace it with, then America is responsible for whatever follows and not > >just for the happiness of the new upper class or the alleged freedom of > >those now wandering across the globe in search of work. > > > >I happen to have agreed with America on the Cold War, but our unwillingness > >to help create an alternative in the Russia that resulted, doesn't show the > >fecundity of Democratic thought but its opposite. We acted more like > >Pillagers and the proverbial Hunter Gatherers of Andrew Jackson's Era that > >we were all along. No wonder they limit the eyes and ears of the > >Artists. To see would be truly intolerable. > > > >Ray Evans Harrell > > > > > > > > > Different topic: There is an interesting piece by Paul Krugman > > > on the increasing disparity of wealth in the US since the > > > 1970s, in Sunday's (20 Oct 02) NYT Magazine. Read it before it becomes > > > a > > > pay-for item on the website.... > > > > > > \brad mccormick > > > > > > -- > > > Let your light so shine before men, > > > that they may see your good works.... (Matt 5:16) > > > > > > Prove all things; hold fast that which is good. (1 Thes 5:21) > > > > > > <![%THINK;[SGML+APL]]> Brad McCormick, Ed.D. / [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > > > Visit my website ==> http://www.users.cloud9.net/~bradmcc/ > > > > > > > >--- > >Incoming mail is certified Virus Free. > >Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). > >Version: 6.0.394 / Virus Database: 224 - Release Date: 10/3/2002 > > ****************************** > Harry Pollard > Henry George School of LA > Box 655 > Tujunga CA 91042 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Tel: (818) 352-4141 > Fax: (818) 353-2242 > ******************************* > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- > > --- > Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. > Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). > Version: 6.0.394 / Virus Database: 224 - Release Date: 10/3/2002 >
