An interesting quote from Gorbachev's web site that I came across in one of
the Russian newspapers today:
Mikhail Gorbachev gave the following explanation to the present US politics:
"It might be that some politicians deliberately want to cross the boundary
after which the whole world would become de-stabilized, in order to then
establish a new world order, based not on international laws but on force.
Yes, a new world order is acutely needed. But it seems that the US
administration believes that this world order should be the prerogative of
the US, so that the interests of this country would be of a priority,
whereas the interests of all other countries would be ignored... I would
like to remind the present US president of a conclusion made by his
predecessor in 1963, when John Kennedy said: 'if you think that the future
world will be Pax Americana, you are wrong. Either there would be a world
for all, or there would be no world at all'."
Gorbachev suggested to look for the causes of the present crisis not in
Iraq, but in the situation that has developed in the US itself. He said:
"There would be no change in politics unless the US starts to contemplate
its own model of economical and social development and unless it makes an
effort to look at the world with more realism. In other words, what is
needed is a profound perestrojka of the US itself."
-----Original Message-----
From: mcole@weber.ucsd.edu
To: xmca@weber.ucsd.edu
Sent: 2/16/2003 4:48 PM
Subject: Re: on the brink
Jay-- How about he sends all the troops to Afghanistan to rebuild the
intrastructure of that country and learn what life is like for people
elsewhere? The 16 million people dying of starvation on the horn of
African could use some help too.
Then there are many thousands of us schools in horrible physical shape,
how about fixing them up?
health care for poor kids and their parents might give some great
on the job training for a lot of people.
If he uses domestic airlines to cart people around, he might bolster
their
bottom line and keep us from becoming totally monopolized.
Then we could start a giant "donate you SUV" program and create
protective
reefs for many species of endangered fish while delight sport fishermen.
FYI Erlbaum seems caught in a web of its own technological making. We
are
contacting the author of the to-be-discussed article to see if we can
get
a doc version for discussion.
Meantime, no thanks to me, there is a wonderful discussion going on in
the
mediational theories of mind class.
mike
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