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Here's an article reporting on a study by Sweden's Stockholm International Peace Research Institute that says that the number of wars has been on a constant decline for quite a while, and that we're at a minimum right now.
"The institute's newly released Yearbook 2006, drawing from data maintained by Sweden's Uppsala University, reports the number of active major armed conflicts worldwide stood at 17 in 2005, the lowest point in a steep slide from a high of 31 in 1991." http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2006/06/28/fewer_wars_but_what_is_a_conflict/
The current problems are defineitely the fault of the United States, most notably the cowardace of Colin Powell, who convinced Reagan to let Hizbullah be after they killed all those American (and French)peackeepers and the meddling of Jimmy Carter, who for all intents and purpouses gave the North Koreans the bomb.
Don't have time to google this morning.
Perhaps you might just lay out your argument a bit more thoroghly so someone can respond seriously to it.
Course if the post was snarcasm, then I agree totally. "When the abyss stares at me, it wets its pants." Brian Hopkins
Doubt that anyone would have known about the history of General Powell if you had not reminded us of it.
Thought DoDos were extinct, but I guess not.
Tis a pity, all in all. "When the abyss stares at me, it wets its pants." Brian Hopkins
Must have been a conspiracy between Hussein and Powell.
Maybe they had little communication devices, eh.?
Tin-foil antennaes, etc?
Had never thought of that. "When the abyss stares at me, it wets its pants." Brian Hopkins
I'm not sure whether I am missing a joke or this is sarcasm stemming from lack of knowledge directed at me; but in case it's the latter, the story I referred to, the second big exposed propaganda lie of the Gulf War (after the babies-thrown-from-incubators stunt of the Kuwaiti ambassadors' daughter). The US convinced the UN SC and Saudi Arabia to consent to the pre-Desert-Storm military buildup after Powell claimed to have satellite photographs of hundreds of thousands of Iraqis marched up on the Kuwait-Saudi border, which he can't show them for security reasons. However, a journalist of the St. Petersburg Times [Florida not Russia!] had the idea to check on the claim with a then publicly awailable Russian Earth-photography satellite -- and it was totally false. Powell later kind-of admitted it. *Lunatic*, n. One whose delusions are out of fashion.
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