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- From: bouche2@server.uwindsor.ca (BOUCHER DAVID )
- Newsgroups: alt.fan.rush-limbaugh,talk.politics.misc,alt.child-support,soc.women,talk.abortion
- Subject: Re: What can we expect from President Hillary Clinton?
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- Date: 21 Jan 1993 17:26:13 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan21.105614.29576@fwi.uva.nl> vlieger@fwi.uva.nl (E.J.P. Vlieger (N89)) writes:
-
- >Once again, I'm amazed by the American way of thinking (or at least, the
- >way half the Americans think). Can you really think that the cowboy
- >president ended the Cold War?
-
- That is what many people in Eastern Europe "really think", too. The American
- media, on the other hand, tend to give most of the credit to Gorbachev.
-
- Eastern European Communism was propped up by the Soviet Union, and would
- probably have continued indefinitely if the Soviets had not bankrupted
- itself trying to keep up with the US in the arms race. The proposed
- "nuclear freeze" that you probably thought was so great would only have
- delayed the fall of Communism... and yet you STILL want to preach to US
- about how we "should have" dealt with the Soviets? Amazing...
-
- >Steven (kramer@phys.uva.nl - that's the Netherlands, good people of America,
- >look it up on your map - if you can)
-
- /*sarcasm on*/
- That would be a good exercise for anyone who is interested in useless trivia.
- I mean, it's not as though the place really *matters* to anyone outside of
- its own borders, but I guess we did care enough to make some effort keep it
- from becoming a German province or another Soviet Socialist republic.
- /*sarcasm off*/
-
- -db
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