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We do.  Unfortunately our attentions spans and memoriest are rather limited.  Our Civil War was the bloodiest our country has every fought.

Sadly, we didn't seem to learn much about peace and you from from our history that we violently expanded West.  I don't know what it is going to take for Americans to get the idea.

All I can say is that my life is a whole lot more stree-free and peaceful living in Europe.  Sort of like the protagonist in Thomas Manns' "The Magic Mountain", I almost feel like I am in a very peaceful sanitorioum.

"Schiller sprach zu Goethe, Steck in dem Arsch die Flöte! Goethe sagte zu Schiller, Mein Arsch ist kein Triller!"

by Jeffersonian Democrat (rzg6f@virginia.edu) on Mon Jun 20th, 2005 at 12:57:25 AM EST
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Yes. Twenty years on, I have no desire to return except to visit now and then. For me, it's a bit like escaping from some kind of unhealthy relationship. Much of what I used to accept as normal now looks, on a good day, quaint; on a bad day, just plain twisted.

No regrets, that's for sure.

Pogo: We have met the enemy, and he is us.

by d52boy on Mon Jun 20th, 2005 at 01:23:49 AM EST
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