Michael Gorbachev at Earth Summit

[Joe R. Golowka]

JCWisc at aol.com wrote:
>>BTW, although I mostly loathe the guy, I live GB the First kudos for 
>> actively opposing the dissolution of the USSR.
> 
> 
> Yeah, the world would unquestionably be a better place today had the USSR not 
> been dissolved.  Come to think of it, the world would probably also be a 
> better place (tarrying with historical hypotheticals) if, in response to the 
> invasion of Afghanistan, the US had merely thrown a diplomatic fit and not 
> actively opposed it.
> 
> Jacob Conrad

While wer'e dreaming, the world would have been a better place if the US 
had never existed and columbus had never set sail.

-- 
Joe R. Golowka
JoeG at ieee.org
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