On Apr 9, 2009, at 8:49 AM, Marv Gandall wrote:
> ... the idea being, of course, that you need a de Gaulle to withdraw
> from Algeria and a Nixon to go to China because they won't draw fire
> from
> the right...
As to deGaulle, that idea is quite false. deGaulle set off a violent insurrectionary resistance (the OAS) and barely escaped assassination.
Shane Mage
> This cosmos did none of gods or men make, but it
> always was and is and shall be: an everlasting fire,
> kindling in measures and going out in measures."
>
> Herakleitos of Ephesos