Re: Kennedy In The Cuban Missile Crisis

On Tue, 8 Jul 2008 23:46:36 +0100, "John Briggs"
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>William Black wrote:
>> "La N" <nilita2004NOSPAM@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>> "William Black" <william.black@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>>> He's said he isn't going to run away in Iraq or Afghanistan.
>>>>
>>>> That'll do for me...
>>>
>>> As in ... "you broke it, you fix it?"
>>
>> As in 'I don't want to live in a world where the USA has ceased to be
>> a power'.
>
>Really?  Wouldn't it be a safer one?

Power vaccuums are a really bad thing. Look at the mess that came
out of the collapse of the evil empire. It had to happen, don't
get me wrong there but several nasty wars, including the current
messes in Iraq and Afghanistan, resulted.

Peter Skelton