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Originally Posted by bluecuracao
I would laugh if I actually thought you believed that.
That's a compliment, by the way.
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I don't mind; laughter is a good gift to give -- get a good start on your 2007.
We Americans regard a state of war as an abnormal and unfortunate state of affairs. Which does not make us peaceniks, merely sensible. Not, I think, uniquely so, but sensible nonetheless. Bear in mind wars invariably devour wealth; it's a war-college tenet that the execution, prosecution, and evolution of a war is at bottom economic. The winner, as a rule, is that economy that can endure the greater damage, or suffers the less damage.