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From: cheryl@batcomputer.TN.CORNELL.EDU (cheryl)
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Subject: Re: AIA
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Date: Mon, 29-Sep-86 16:18:49 EDT
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In article <530@meccts.UUCP> mvs@meccts.UUCP (Michael V. Stein) writes:
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>Gosh Jeff, what's with all of the ad hominem attacks?  (Assuming you 
>weren't covering totalitarian regimes in your logic class, they would
>have mentioned it to you that it such an attack is a logical fallacy.)  
>
>Jeff, you seem to forget that I'm with you 100% on this one.  Jeff, 
>I made it perfectly clear I agreed completely with *all* of your 
>conclusions.  For example, as others have mentioned, spending 
>1/3 of the time talking about small South American dictatorships is
>important in a European history class.  (Hell, otherwise I imagine
>you would have to spend the time talking about stuffy old news like
>the Reformation.  Oooh ick.) 

The original complaint, was, however, about spending time on Nicaragua, 
a CENTRAL American regime.  Perhaps you were confusing Nicaragua with 
Pinochet's Chile?  Now *THAT'S* a South American dictatorship.  I think
that if they were going to do any comparisons of South American Dicatorships
with any time period in Europe, they would have to use Hitler's Germany,
not early modern Europe.  (But Hell, then, you'd have to spend time talking
about disgusting old news like the torture and rape of small children,
pregnant women being beaten to death, young men being found with seven
bullet holes in their heads, etc.)  

You know, Micheal, there's a whole bunch of little countries down there :-)...

complete with unstable governments, medieval land practices, strong
influence of the Catholic Church ...

but of course, we could learn NOTHING about Early Modern Europe by
studying what happens under these circumstances.  

And certainly, Pinochet is NOTHING like Hitler.  He only dresses like
him, dresses his troops in Jack-boots, has them goosestepping around
Chile, gives his secret police the latitude to torture and kill people
without due process....

Yes, I can see why the AIA doesn't want any comparisons made between 
any time period in Europe and contemporary South and Central America.  

Cheryl