Virgil Bierschwale wrote: > Isnt that part of what sunk all of the great economomies of their time ? > Rome, spain, england, russia > Seems to me like we're next if we don't learn from this simple statement. > "History repeats itself" > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf > Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, July 21, 2008 2:46 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [OT] VW Researcher Pours Cold Water on Electric Car Dream > > >> I'm warning that the USA could fall into the same trap in Afghanistan >> that brought down the Soviet Union, due to an overextended USA foreign >> policy. >> > > Sounds like you've been reading Ron Paul.
Yes, Ron Paul has been greatly under appreciated in many of his positions. > He has a point that there is no > reason for us to have military in 131 countries around the world. We are > dumping far too much money into their economies and creating too much > dependence by generally unappreciative people. > It's really seem to me a continuation of the Reagan Doctrine, except instead of the cold war against communism, including many covert operation to support faction battling communism; today it's the extreme Islamics who have been branded terrorist, and a war on terrorism. The military industrial complex continue to live and do well in this environment, and in this ship's bowls could come the inquisition, (eg the Religious Righters). Regards, LelandJ > -- > Larry Miller > > > > --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- multipart/mixed > text/plain (text body -- kept) > message/rfc822 > --- > [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[EMAIL PROTECTED] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
