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"The idea [that the US has a mission to bring 'freedom' to the world] sounds nice. To the extent that it improves the general human condition I'm for it. I just don't think America will be very good at it. We'll stumble around, make messes, and eventually piss it all away. We lack the propriety of the British, or the fatalism of the Russians so when the American Empire goes down it will go down twisted and ugly." -- wayward_va, in a ( post to a mailing list )

(Hey wayward_va; thanks for permission to quote you, friend, but you know you should really get around to putting it in your own journal and starting a discussion there -- betcha' get more followups to this than to the sales tax entry.)