Re: One Man Against the World

2003-02-24 Thread Thomas Shaddack
On Sun, 23 Feb 2003, Tim May wrote: > Bay of Pigs backfired, so Cuban Missile Crisis was the reserve plan. Cuban Missile Crisis conveniently happened unplanned. Followup plan to Bay of Pigs was Operation Northwood.

Re: One Man Against the World

2003-02-24 Thread Declan McCullagh
On Sun, Feb 23, 2003 at 10:46:31PM -0600, Kevin S. Van Horn wrote: > An important part of Lincoln's propaganda machine was simply to imprison > anyone who criticized him. He imprisoned any newspaper editor who had > the gall to criticize him. Other newspapers he put out of business by > instru

Re: One Man Against the World

2003-02-24 Thread Tim May
On Sunday, February 23, 2003, at 08:46 PM, Kevin S. Van Horn wrote: I've been reading DiLorenzo's book, _The Real Lincoln_, and this description is a pretty close fit to Abraham Lincoln, too. Eric Cordian wrote: --- A great, civilized nation democratically elected a fanatic demagogue, who pre

Re: One Man Against the World

2003-02-23 Thread Kevin S. Van Horn
I've been reading DiLorenzo's book, _The Real Lincoln_, and this description is a pretty close fit to Abraham Lincoln, too. Eric Cordian wrote: --- A great, civilized nation democratically elected a fanatic demagogue, who preached war. Actually, he did not really receive the majority of votes, b

One Man Against the World

2003-02-23 Thread Eric Cordian
http://www.avnery-news.co.il/english/main.html - One Man Against the World --- A great, civilized nation democratically elected a fanatic demagogue, who preached war. Actually, he did not really receive the majority of votes, but, somehow, his ascent to power was arranged nevertheless