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Old 01-03-2008, 15:52 PM   #72 (permalink)
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Thanks. I get it. Really, on your point, I do. A well is a well is a well. We're not talking to different points if you clearly know that I already understand that our faux pas are the only relevance necessary from the world's perspective. Instead, it's circles.

No doubt we've massive issues and that's my primary and enduring concern because, as an American, I have a "tres' petite" influence there. Nowhere else.

Just tired of the drumbeat. It's not the perfect truth. It's just "PRAVDA" being "PRAVDA"-if not necessarily strictly from Moscow. Look. It's convenient for the rest of the world to use us so long as we continue to try- fail, succeed or otherwise. Because, in trying, we inevitably expose freely our foibles. Until others are prepared to expose themselves to the full impact of foreign engagement, we'll continue to hear the smug sideline views.

Meanwhile, let's all go over to the German tent up there in Mazur-I-Sharif and pour ourselves a Pilsner on them.
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