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From: Brad De Long <delong at econ.Berkeley.EDU>
> If by "figure out" you mean that whichever group of thugs has the
> most guns suppress all other political parties and seize power, then
> hell no!
That's a different topic. Did the US know, in 1950 that Sun was a megalomaniac? Did the US support the Japanese based fascists?