08-08-2006, 02:15 AM
Quote:...But, what if I'm not willing to sacrifice a couple of cities to nuclear destruction? I don't believe failure is the best teacher.
But if you look at, for example, pre-WWII Japan...
--me
More to the point...
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Capitalism is not too strong; democracy is too weak. We have not grown too hubristic as producers and consumers; we have grown too timid as citizens, acquiescing to deregulation and privatization (airlines, accounting firms, banks, media conglomerates, you name it) and a growing tyranny of money over politics.
..." -- Benjamin R. Barber
Published on the New York Times Op Ed Page, July 29, 2002
”There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy." - Hamlet (1.5.167-8), Hamlet to Horatio.
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