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From: zrm@mit-eddie.UUCP (Zigurd R. Mednieks)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: Star Spangled Banner
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Date: Wed, 14-Dec-83 01:04:18 EST
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Posted: Wed Dec 14 01:04:18 1983
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Nationalism obsolete? Look at the record of individual nations in
creating good environments for their citizens, and then compare this
to the major internationalist movements that exist today: It would be
ridiculous to suggest that anyone not in the lunatic fringe would
prefer the government of the Soviet Union to our own. The U.N. is
only slightly less wretched. The E.C., with an elected parliament
might be just barely acceptable but it is a worse traveling circus
of overpaid paper-pushers than any parliament of its member states.

On the other hand, the average Pole would probably find an invasion
of the agressive anti-socialist elements of the imperialist West much to
his liking. So when we speak of a responsibility to the rest of the
people in the world, we might begin by setting right the situation
we helped create at Yalta.

Cheers,
Zig