jbrown72073@cs.com wrote: <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid"> Carl Remick: >Yes, you must have skipped class the day Prof. Richard Perle >explained all this. Perle says it's impossible for democracies to start >wars; ipso facto, the US *cannot* be an aggressor. Or it can't be a democracy. Slight chink, otherwise airtight. * * * Years ago, when I was a prof, I taught a class on democracy, and was doing James Mill's utilitarian defense of the same; once of his arguments is that democracy enables people to get what they want, and so to be happier. This was at Ohio State, a fairly conservative school. So, I asked, what do people want? More money, education, health care, less work. etc. The students filled this in. And yet  . . . So, what's the problem? Is there something wrong with Mill's theory, or is this not a democracy, or what? The students were fairly nonplussed by this result. jks</BLOCKQUOTE> <hr size=1>Do you Yahoo!? <a href="http://rd.yahoo.com/platinum/evt=8162/*http://platinum.yahoo.com/splash.html">Yahoo! Platinum</a> - Watch CBS' NCAA March Madness, <a href="http://rd.yahoo.com/platinum/evt=8162/*http://platinum.yahoo.com/splash.html">live on your desktop</a>!