From: Forrest Bishop (forrestb@ix.netcom.com)
Date: Sun Apr 07 2002 - 03:46:56 MDT
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From: Damien Broderick <d.broderick@english.unimelb.edu.au>
To: <extropians@extropy.org>
Sent: Saturday, April 06, 2002 10:54 PM
Subject: Re: Terror Kids With Bombs - Clash of Civilization ...
> ...Spike, the point is the *restricted local* versus *global* nature of those
> conflicts. It's true that those `police actions' conducted by the US and
> several communist nations had the potential to unleash global nuclear
> horrors on us all, and were proxies perhaps for the avoided WW3 conflict
> between the US and the Soviet Union; still, I don't recall there being any
> Italian, German, British, Latvian, Greek, Belgian or even French soldiers
> fighting alongside the Yanks. That was left to the poor bloody duped
> Aussies (which, you'll recall, is a fact that you'd never heard until I
> chanced to mention it to you, which makes even more bitterly ironic the
> supposed rationale for Australian involvement: that we were *helping our
> friends across the Pacific*, who would *never forget our brotherly
> sacrifice*. Sigh.)
Could you please explain to us "free" public-school graduates where Australia is? I ferget if it's a suburb of Chicago or New
Orleans?
-- Forrest Bishop Chairman, Institute of Atomic-Scale Engineering www.iase.cc
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