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From: "Harry Veeder" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [Vo]: New Segway Products
Mike Carrell wrote:
The accusation that the US is acting as colonial power in the Iraq
conflict
is a bit glib. I submit that one general problem that the US has in the
world is that we have no real taste for Empire.
The US out-sourced the task of running an empire.
Interesting. Are you including international commercial licensing as
'outsourcing empire'? Or outsourcing manufacturing technology and teaching
other countries the means of quality manufacturing, the better to compete
with us, as 'outsourcing empire'? Or protecting Japan with a military shield
so they don't have to invest as heavily in a defense establishment, and
becoming better competitors as 'outsourcing empire'? Or maintaining a stable
economy so the US becomes a preferred respository for wealth so that we
become increaingly dependent on others assuming our debt as 'outsourcing
empire'? Or allowing foreign investment in, say real estate and auto
manufacturing here, which are beginning to eclipse our domestic products, as
'outsourcing empire'?
As I recall we spect great treasure and lives in containing the Soviet use
of client states to spread communism. or should we be without alliances of
any kind?
Mike Carrell
Harry
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