Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!harpo!eagle!mhuxl!houxm!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!uiucdcs!parsec!ctvax!uokvax!andree From: andree@uokvax.UUCP Newsgroups: net.politics Subject: Re: Who's deterring whom? - (nf) Message-ID: <4326@uiucdcs.UUCP> Date: Sun, 4-Dec-83 04:58:38 EST Article-I.D.: uiucdcs.4326 Posted: Sun Dec 4 04:58:38 1983 Date-Received: Tue, 6-Dec-83 23:05:43 EST Lines: 35 #R:charm:-17800:uokvax:5000030:000:1565 uokvax!andree Dec 1 21:21:00 1983 Did I say that the US (or me, for that matter) was in some way morally superior to the USSR? Or anybody else, for that matter? If so, I slipped. Misbehaving client states of the US aren't much (if any) better off than misbehaving client states of the USSR. The thing is that citizens of the USSR aren't much better of than citizens of the those client states, whereas citizens of the US are noticably better off than those in the other three catagories. Being basically selfish, I want to keep my current standard of living (it would be nice if everybody in the world were there or better, but...). If this involves it being hard to tell the difference between the US & the USSR from the outside, that's to bad. I believe that the people of the world will be better off in the long run if the US wins the battle of world domination, but MY main motivation is not wanting to be in the state the citizens of the USSR & the client states are in (because "in the long run, we'll all be dead"). And don't try to kid yourself that it's not a battle. The world is heading for a world government (probably after there's somebody outside the world to hate! (-: <- upside down to avoid confusion with closing parens). The US & the USSR (or whoever replaces them) are going to play a part in this, and THE TWO FORMS OF GOVERNMENT ARE BASICALLY INCOMPATIBLE. A world government the US could live with the USSR couldn't, and vice versa. One side must dominate, even if it's only in having THEIR form of world government. So once again: which side do you want to win?