On 15 Mar 2006 08:59:20 -0800, "Too_Many_Tools"
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Once again the United States is being beaten by a third world country.
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Its not the country -- its what was attempted.

As Townsend observed in his book "Up The Organization" "when you
attempt the impossible you are bound to fail." This can't be
revised no matter who signs off on the findings or directives.


Unka George
(George McDuffee)

What a country calls its vital economic interests are not
the things which enable its citizens to live, but the things
which enable it to make war. Petrol is more likely than wheat
to be a cause of international conflict.
Simone Weil (1909-43), French philosopher, mystic.
«The Power of Words», in Nouveaux Cahiers (1 and 15 April 1937;
repr. in Selected Essays, ed. by Richard Rees, 1962)