Author: Bruce Moreland
Date: 21:06:45 08/29/01
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On August 29, 2001 at 23:46:01, Robin Smith wrote: >On August 29, 2001 at 17:45:57, William H Rogers wrote: > >>On August 29, 2001 at 13:58:11, Derrick Daniels wrote: >> >>> >>>With all the talent and intelligence here, shouldn't we be devoting our time to >>>solving the problems of HUMANITY? I don't know about anyonelse but everytime i >>>come here I feel like I am wasting precious time, although I enjoy it >>>considerably. >> >>The problem with solving the worlds problems is that no matter what may be >>suggested, there will always be crooked politicians who want to make money on >>everything that they do. Most of the wars, etc. are caused by men who make money >>one way or another with some country or another. Just as with our own civil war, >>and it was not over slaverly, the northern money lords tried to impost >>restrictions on the southern people who were getting rich off their crops and >>tried to take it away from them. Only after a year or two did they adopt the >>policy that it was to free the slaves even though most of the slaves that were >>held in the northern states were not freed for many years after. >>Yes, there is a lot of talent here and it has a better chance of solving the >>chess puzzle than it does in solving the worlds problems. >>IMHO >>Bill > >The US civil war and it's causes was very, very, complex. Any explaination that >EITHER: > >1) Portrays the North as being composed of noble crusaders fighting for morality >against an evil South. > >OR > >2) Portrays the South as hapless victims of a tyranical North. > >needs to be taken with a large does of skeptisism. Of course this is not much >different from most wars. As this is WAY off topic, this is my last post on >this subject. > >Robin If anyone is thinking about responding with a dissertation on wars in general or the US Civil War in particular, please don't. bruce
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