ss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Monday 18 Aug 2008 11:25:59 pm Perry E. Metzger wrote: >> If, tomorrow morning, people gave me the choice between Texas >> seceding from the United States and me having a fine happy life, and >> keeping Texas while having bloodshed, terrorism and high taxation to >> pay to keep the Texans in the US, I know which way I'd prefer. > > I know. But Mexico does not yet have nukes and is not trying to grab Texas > because Mexico is Catholic and Texans are 70% Catholic.
It wouldn't make any difference to me, so far as I can tell. Indeed, if Texas wanted to leave, and Mexico had nukes, it would be all the more reason not to want to spend blood and money keeping it, because I'd rather not see my own life risked over something I have no reason to care about. I think they'd be stupid to want to go, because Mexico is poor and corrupt and the US is far richer and freer, but it is not my place to tell others how to live. Anyway, I'm curious: what sort of difference will it make in your life whether Kashmir is part of India or not? I'm asking about concrete things, not abstractions like "it would upset me". Perry Who notes that, by pure coincidence, Richard Kostelanetz's book "Towards Secession" has been on his night stand for two weeks.
