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From: Michael Pollak <mpollak@panix.com></FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=2 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0"></BLOCKQUOTE></B></U><BR>
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You had me going until i got to the below. It's a pretty unrealistic economic perspective that presupposes peace. Imperialism ( an economic category) famously makes wars. But an interesting essay anyway.<BR>
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Charles</FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=2 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0"></BLOCKQUOTE></B></U><BR>
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<BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px">The reason this makes no sense from an economic perspective -- any<BR>
economic perspective -- is because economic perspectives presuppose peace<BR>
in the same way that strategic thinking presupposes war.</BLOCKQUOTE></B></U><BR>
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