On 10/13/06, Yoshie Furuhashi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 10/13/06, Jim Devine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> In my experience, if this "reform" wasn't won because of pressure from
> below, it isn't as good as it looks. If it was simply granted because
> of the benevolence of those on top, it can just as eaily be revoked.
It seems to me that there is no reform that isn't won by pressure from
below in one sense or another.
we don't if there was a _good_ reform or not,
--
Jim Devine / "To initiate a war of aggression, therefore, is not only
an international crime; it is the supreme international crime
differing only from other war crimes in that it contains within itself
the accumulated evil of the whole." -- Nuremberg Tribunal