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
Traditionally, the intra-national and international domains have been very
neatly separated. The former gives rise to sovereign states which have the
monopoly of power, and there is some kind of consensus that, everything
else remaining equal, democracy and rule of law inside a country (nation
At 09:46 23-10-2002 -0400, John Giorgis wrote:
You mean it is completely amazing to hope that Democracy and Free Markets
might triumph over Totalitarianism, Autoritarianism, Repression, and
Fanatacism?? This is an opinion that I am to be ridiculed for?
What's going on here?
You
Jeroen wrote:
What's going on here?
You misinterpreting what DB was saying -- that is what is going on here.
I must confess that somehow I am also misinterpreting His ideas
about Iraq. I would formulate a question, but I was stopped by
a holyday exausting trip, His recent absence, and my
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
O.k. folks, what is going on here? In the past few days, we have heard
Dr. Brin argue:
1) The no-brainer solution to Iraq, is to divide up Iraq and Iraq's oil
resources between the non-Arab Kurds and the non-Sunni Shiites, without any
regard for how this might inflame the Sunni-Arab street.
2)
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?
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
Ooops let me try that again. Please reply to this message.
JDG
At 08:21 PM 10/22/2002 -0400 John D. Giorgis wrote:
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
At 12:55 PM 10/20/2002 -0700 d.brin wrote:
Again I ask, do you envision Planet Earth still being divided into
completely separate sovereign nations with capricious right-of-war
and subject to no overall legal authority, say, 1,000 years from now?
When you squint at our future, sending starships
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
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