Re: Brin: The Future of the World Re: brin: war

2002-10-24 Thread Doug
Ray Ludenia wrote: Last poll* I heard here in Aus had 53% against and 39% for. Surprisingly little change in numbers after the Bali massacre. http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2002/10/06/opinion/polls/main524496.shtml CBS News poll: More people now than just two weeks ago favor giving the

Re: Brin: The Future of the World Re: brin: war

2002-10-23 Thread Ray Ludenia
Kevin Street wrote: John D. Giorgis reponded: ALL those allies?The UK, Australia, Spain, and Italy are all behind the US attack on Iraq - and those are just the ones that I have heard of. This is just my opinion, but I suspect that the majority of the people in those countries don't

RE: Brin: The Future of the World Re: brin: war

2002-10-23 Thread Kevin Street
J. van Baardwijk wrote: Through cooperation with other freedom-loving democratic countries, or by unilaterally deciding to ignore all those potential allies, storming into country after country with all guns blazing, and alienating all those other freedom-loving countries from you in the process?

Re: Brin: The Future of the World Re: brin: war

2002-10-22 Thread John D. Giorgis
At 11:48 PM 10/22/2002 +0200 J. van Baardwijk wrote: Through cooperation with other freedom-loving democratic countries, or by unilaterally deciding to ignore all those potential allies, storming into country after country with all guns blazing, and alienating all those other freedom-loving

Re: Brin: The Future of the World Re: brin: war

2002-10-21 Thread d.brin
This below is truly amazing, John. You cling to the notion of a future situation as absolutely similar to our present situation as you can possibly craft. You want the future to be 2002 but a little nicer, a little more americanized. You need, desperately need to recognize how your own