In article <vfomh3d4sqmjce@no-spam>,
"Baxter" <lbax01.spaminator@no-spam> wrote:
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> "nobody" <nobody@no-spam> wrote in message
> news:nobody-F1DCA5.21493126062003@no-spam
> > In article <vfjcgfb57oeke6@no-spam>,
> > "Baxter" <lbax01.spaminator@no-spam> wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > "Bob Tiernan" <zulu.pacifier.com@no-spam> wrote in message
> > > news:Pine.GSO.4.53MAILDIR.0306250013590.3517@no-spam
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Bill Shatzer wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > Thomas wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > > I see you're back again and haven't curtailed your
> > > > > > use of illicit substances. You must be high to try
> > > > > > and deny that Billy Blow Job was caught cold
> > > > > > committing perjury before a Federal Grand Jury.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > > No, he came clean (more or less) before the grand
> > > > > jury.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > And wasn't that great for our system, i.e. that
> > > > a sitting President had to answer questions like
> > > > he was a regular Joe?
> > > >
> > > You'd prefer a president that classified everything and kept it secret?
> >
> >
> > What a great non sequitor. Try again.
>
> Hardly a non sequitor - this Administration is the most secretive of any in
> our history.
Still a non sequitor and also unproved. Care to document it? I'd bet
on FDR.
Beware of nature, "cynical in her sunrises," Nietzsche once wrote. He might
as well have been warning about history, above all what would prove to be the
historical false dawn of 1989. The triumphalist talk, with its conceit that
history had somehow come to an end, did not last long; history, the
old-fashioned, pitiless, sanguinary kind, was soon back with a vengeance. In
fact, the euphoria over the collapse of the Soviet Union had barely worn off
when the genocidal wars of "ethnic cleansing" that would sweep through the
Balkans between 1991 and 1999 began in Croatia.
The old saying "Save me from what I wish for most" could not have been more
appropriate than it was to the breakup of Yugoslavia. The Western powers had
wanted an end to the Cold War division of Europe. Well, now they had to deal
with all the historical messes that had been festering, in some cases since
the end of World War I, but had been frozen or suppressed during the
half-century struggle between the United States and the Soviet Union. And the
United Nations had wanted a wider role, believing, as senior officials of the
world body had been insisting practically since its inception, that the
potential of the UN would finally be unlocked were the superpower rivalry
ever to end. Then, they said, the UN would show the world what a force for
good, and above all for peace, it was, and had had the potential to be all
along.
[...]
Enter Bosnia, laughing. The reality was that almost no one had really
expected the Soviet empire to collapse, and no government, let alone the UN
Secretariat, was either prepared or really in a position to deal competently
with the political aftershocks that accompanied its passing.
~ David Rieff, _A Bed For the Night - Humanitarianism In Crisis_
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"nobody" <nobody@no-spam> wrote in message
news:nobody-776E8F.22203728062003@no-spam
> In article
> <w6QKa.23607$3o3.1806827@no-spam>,
> "alohacyberian" <alohacyberian@no-spam> wrote:
>
> > "nobody" <nobody@no-spam> wrote in message
> > news:nobody-F1DCA5.21493126062003@no-spam
> > > In article <vfjcgfb57oeke6@no-spam>,
> > > "Baxter" <lbax01.spaminator@no-spam> wrote:
> > > > "Bob Tiernan" <zulu.pacifier.com@no-spam> wrote in
message
> > > > news:Pine.GSO.4.53MAILDIR.0306250013590.3517@no-spam
> > > > > Bill Shatzer wrote:
> > > > > > Thomas wrote:
> > > > You'd prefer a president that classified everything and kept it
secret?
> > >
> > > What a great non sequitor. Try again.
> > >
> > The United States has never had a president with that kind of power, so I
> > wonder what country he's talking about. KM
>
>
> The outhisass country.