Friday, November 12, 1999

Re: Friedman Rebut

"We"? What about the Germans? The Austrians? French, Russian...
British..Italians? It wasn't so much isolation that gave 1938 Time magazine
Man-of-the-Year Hitler room to move, but the popularity of his anti-religious
socialism. Anyway, it was German ally Japan that brought us into the war,
when we denied them raw materials, strangely, and they struck back. I think
it prudent, not isolation, to fly the "Don't Tread on Me" banner that adorned
our ships for the first 100 years of the Republic... Both Presidents
Washington and Eisenhauer warned us about excessive foreign entanglements...

John


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