At 09:26 AM 10/23/2002 -0500 Dan Minette wrote:
>> You mean it is completely amazing to hope that Democracy and Free Markets
>> might triumph over Totalitarianism, Autoritarianism, Repression, and
>> Fanatacism?????? This is an opinion that I am to be ridiculed for?
>>
>> What's going on here?
>
>This last one makes more sense to me. NATO is a European-American
>alliance. It excludes many other democracies, including large and/or
>influential ones with a significant history of democracy as India and
>Japan. One might then see NATO as a tool of European culture as much as
>democracy.
That would be somewhat reasonable, and indeed, I wholeheartedly support
admitting South Korea, Japan, Australia, and New Zealand into NATO - and
India as soon as they settle the Kashmir thing.
Unfortuantely, I cannot pull that conclusion out of Dave's actual words:
>You want NATO to be the world gov? You cannot see how
>self-satisfying that model is? MY SIDE GETS TO RULE!
He's clearly not talking about the fact that Australia isn't in NATO.
Interestingly enough, though, in a very little-noticed move this week, NATO
radically altered their fundamental purpose, and are no longer going to
stick solely to the "North Atlantic" region.
JDG
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