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Russian military leaders have expressed concern about US plans for a national missile defense system. Will defense technology be limited by possibilities for a strategic imbalance? Is this just SDI all over again?

rshowalter - 09:17pm Jun 13, 2001 EST (#5037 of 5069)
Robert Showalter showalte@macc.wisc.edu

MD4761rshowalter 6/11/01 4:11pm

focusing on the notion of evil . . .
MD3727 gisterme 5/15/01 6:24pm ... MD3938 possumdag 5/15/01 6:50pm
MD3945 rshowalter 5/15/01 7:22pm

"evil " as " disciplined beauty " according to warped assumptions and lies MD3946 rshowalter 5/15/01 7:23pm

MD3947 rshowalter 5/15/01 7:40pm
Illustrative "cartoons of assumptions" applied to the people I think of when I think "evil" ---

- Alexander the Great -- Atilla the Hun ---Napolean --- Hitler --- Stalin

Here's the " Hitler" assumption -- the essential core of the NAZI viewpoint:

Hitler:

" " There is an "ideal Germany" to be advanced at all costs, I am the person to conceptualize it and impose it, and there will be NO value being placed on any nation, group, or individual who do not fit my elaborate, philosophically ornate, arbitrary conception."

MD4763 rshowalter 6/11/01 4:33pm

"Disciplined beauty" , from different points of view -- examples from movies: MD3951 rshowalter 5/15/01 8:20pm

lunarchick - 09:17pm Jun 13, 2001 EST (#5038 of 5069)
lunarchick@www.com

Don't tell me ... let me guess ... Strasser!

rshowalter - 09:18pm Jun 13, 2001 EST (#5039 of 5069)
Robert Showalter showalte@macc.wisc.edu

rshowalter 6/11/01 4:34pm

MD3952: almarst-2001 5/15/01 8:36pm

" Is there a credible explanation to the US opposition to the International Court for War Crimes, supported, as far as i know, by most of the other nations?"

MD3970 rshowalter 5/16/01 2:59pm

American callousness.

lunarchick - 09:19pm Jun 13, 2001 EST (#5040 of 5069)
lunarchick@www.com

...enjoy...

rshowalter - 09:19pm Jun 13, 2001 EST (#5041 of 5069)
Robert Showalter showalte@macc.wisc.edu

MD3978 rshowalter 5/16/01 5:22pm

MD4043 rshowalter 5/17/01 12:57pm . .. MD4044 rshowalter 5/17/01 12:57pm
MD4045 rshowalter 5/17/01 12:57pm ...

MD4046 rshowalter 5/17/01 1:19pm ... MD4047 rshowalter 5/17/01 1:21pm

Here is my summary of Hitler's ideals -- on the basis of which he acted and led a nation that backed him. (Those who backed him substituted "we" for "I" to a great extent.) :

" There is an "ideal Germany" to be advanced at all costs, I am the person to conceptualize it and impose it, and there will be NO value being placed on any nations, groups, or individuals who do not fit my elaborate, philosophically ornate, arbitrary conception."

Let me make two word substitutions:

" There is an "ideal America" to be advanced at all costs, we are the people to conceptualize it and impose it, and there will be NO value being placed on any nations, groups, or individuals who do not fit our elaborate, philosophically ornate, arbitrary conception."

Does that characterization remind you of some people?

Would it remind some other people of some people you know?

Many people outside the US see the US that way, and as the current administration, for all its fancy words (and the Nazis had plenty of fancy words, too) becomes more and more unilateralist, the resemblence occurs to more and more people.

At their worst, Americans sure look a lot like Nazis to me.

For examples, look at ...

Refusing to Save Africans by BOB HERBERT http://www.nytimes.com/2001/06/11/opinion/11HERB.html

and also

Dark Side of U.S. Quest for Security: Squalor on an Atoll by HOWARD W. FRENCH http://www.nytimes.com/2001/06/11/world/11ISLA.html?0611inside

I prefer Americans at their best, where they have many traits the whole world admires, with good reason.

lunarchick - 09:22pm Jun 13, 2001 EST (#5042 of 5069)
lunarchick@www.com

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