Oh, I see: the Market Will Correct. Right?

Post #80,689 by Ashton 2/10/03 4:57:28 PM Reply	Oh, I see: the Market Will Correct. Right?
Post #80,695 by bepatient 2/10/03 5:10:47 PM Reply	What the???? possibly babble Maybe Peter should come back and start following you around. That was certainly a pointless shot...I guess you have to guarantee yourself the number one spot...and title only, nonsenical crap like that is one way to do it. You were born...and so you're free...so Happy Birthday! _{Laurie Anderson} [link\|mailto:bepatient@aol.com\|BePatient]
Post #80,701 by Ashton 2/10/03 5:32:05 PM Reply	It's the laissez-faire slogan, no? And yours is most often an apologia for any status which is quo. You appear to call that 'conservative'. I call that - ostrich position. As to the above thread re the meaning of "no opinion". I'll give you the point that a next military action would change the scale of the internecine fight.. but only barely. We deliberately stonewalled by obfuscation of what we really meant. This was baldfaced dissembling-by-omission at a critical juncture. No 20/20 hindsight needed. Of all the phraseology possible, there was not an iota of indication to Saddam, of what we could be cpable of, next -- and it was clear what his intentions were. Velvet trap. Yours is as simplistic a dismissal as you accuse Mike of. Laissez-faire.. yup, except - when United Fruit du jour needs our humanitarian intervention and an Allende assassinated. I think we are massive hypocrites; you appear to deem us Good Biznessmen. Both may be correct.
Post #80,715 by bepatient 2/10/03 5:55:03 PM Reply	As was thought... ...the figment of Ashton's imagination that is bepatient should understand only bizness...and should be completely unaware of the apparent hypocrisy because we are not fully involved in every crisis du jour around the globe. As a suggestion...follow the links provided by another to read more of the conversation...where the discussions were all about peaceful resolution to the dispute...and indeed hope that in a meeting to occur only days later would be where such peaceful resolution would occur. And do we, the US, have to explain in every simple diplomatic meeting what our military is capable of should we become "displeased"...I would venture a guess that such tactics would be 1)frowned upon in diplomatic circles and 2) entirely unecessary..as everyone already knows what we can do when motivated. By all means...continue now with your invention of all positions you will later attribute to me...program already in progress. You were born...and so you're free...so Happy Birthday! _{Laurie Anderson} [link\|mailto:bepatient@aol.com\|BePatient]
Post #80,797 by Silverlock 2/10/03 10:08:30 PM Reply	Do you even wonder why? And do we, the US, have to explain in every simple diplomatic meeting what our military is capable of should we become "displeased" If I read this statement correctly, it says, "don't do anything to displease the US. Even if the US doesn't know what is displeasing. Yet. How many lives per gallon? --Sign outside of various churches
Post #80,805 by bepatient 2/10/03 10:43:22 PM Reply	Wrong... simple statement that means...it is completely unecessary for us to tell any country that we could kick their ass in a fight. They already know this. You were born...and so you're free...so Happy Birthday! _{Laurie Anderson} [link\|mailto:bepatient@aol.com\|BePatient]
Post #80,808 by Silverlock 2/10/03 10:54:28 PM Reply	Well that explains it except for the "displeased" part. How many lives per gallon? --Sign outside of various churches
Post #81,000 by mmoffitt 2/11/03 7:33:28 PM Reply	"Displeased" is amorphus.

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