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Cynthia, apologies for late reply and cat on lap is nipping me.
Maybe. It's certainly leavening the economy. Bound to get veterans' benefits raised. And maybe it will start to propell us away from the energy economy we currently have.
Initially, into more nuclear power.
posted by
majroj
on June 26, 2006 at 9:46 PM
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Maj, so you are saying that "TERRORISTS" are now
Americas only hope of a unifying force to hold us together and keep us on top of the heap?
posted by
Cynthia
on June 21, 2006 at 3:07 AM
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Cynthia, opportunites for fortune abound in change, not stagnation.
So people mix it up where it benefits them.
Imagine Yassir Arafat without Israel.
posted by
majroj
on June 19, 2006 at 8:22 PM
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Maj, I totally agree with your summing up
of the African situation. Look how hard it has been for the Europeans to get their act together. Not even the euro could manage that for them. Those old tribal influences run deep.
posted by
Cynthia
on June 19, 2006 at 3:38 AM
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Karldean, good point,
when you put it that way it makes me laugh too. That was a rather simplistic analogy I made. And I didn't spell check my coment.
posted by
Cynthia
on June 19, 2006 at 3:36 AM
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And then we get our comeuppance.
posted by
majroj
on June 16, 2006 at 8:27 PM
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Making more sausage...
China will fail if it loses coherence. We are losing because we have lost ours.
Liberia's playing field is too level, its borders porous and its neighbors willing to invade one another too freely (with encouragement from us and/or others). Sort of like Poland in the past.
All of the strongest countries were forged by "unifying conflict" (someone won and destroyed the losers) at some point, to destroy dissonance and forge identity. Most small countries which have lasted have cast out dissenters. Liberia and other African nations will never be able to get it together so long as they cannot unite and form an identity, and the only way that ever seems to happen is for the conflicted parties to slug it out.
posted by
majroj
on June 13, 2006 at 11:57 AM
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Dear Cynthia , I am chuckled by your description of world powers as "bullies". How nice if a world power were to behave as a big brother who would protect all the smaller ones!---
posted by
Karldean
on June 13, 2006 at 4:03 AM
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Karldean, At the moment it doesn't look like Liberia
will be a world power in our lifetime but who knows a century or two from now...but I'm betting China is the next bully on the block. World powers are by nature bullys. The USA has been throwing it's weight around for over 60 years.Thats not long by world domination standards, but cycles of change move a lot fast now then they used to.
posted by
Cynthia
on June 13, 2006 at 3:01 AM
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Dear Cynthia , That is proof that life will change, cycle of life prevails and none would remain in one place and in the same position . And we will never know that one day Liberia will transform into a world power.---Karldean.
posted by
Karldean
on June 12, 2006 at 5:22 AM
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