Re: American knowledge of geography
"Look at Burma, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam, and Thailand. One country is clearly far in the lead, not just economically but by almost any standard. I attribute this to the fact that Thailand was never colonized, and never suffered under a Communist government."
When was Burma under a Communist government? I thought they were became independent at the same time as India and Pakistan, and then there was a coup and there's been a military dictatorship ever since. Doesn't Burma really need comparison with India and Pakistan in that case?
If I suddenly stop posting.....
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Originally Posted by Wesley
...Baltics or Balkns does make a diffference, but same problem....
BALTICS?!?
Ay! Caramba!
I'm going to pop a blood vessel pretty soon! :umn:
Re: American knowledge of geography
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Originally Posted by Curious
When was Burma under a Communist government? I thought they were became independent at the same time as India and Pakistan, and then there was a coup and there's been a military dictatorship ever since. Doesn't Burma really need comparison with India and Pakistan in that case?
Interestingly this month's Atlantic magazine does a retrospective on Burma and it's available online. The Burmese generals just keep on inflicting damage on their people - and their greatest fan is, as we know from reading That Book, HMTK himself
http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/195802/burma
Re: If I suddenly stop posting.....
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Originally Posted by kenc
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Originally Posted by Wesley
...Baltics or Balkns does make a diffference, but same problem....
BALTICS?!?
Ay! Caramba!
I'm going to pop a blood vessel pretty soon! :umn:
I sympathize with your frustration. You really must come up to Chiang Mai and explain it all to me!! :-)
OK!!! Baltics to the left -- oops, West -- of the Black Sea!!! Caucasian Mountains to the RIGHT! (Oops, East).
East-West challenged Henry. (My older brother is Left-Right challenged). The word "challenged" here is Newspeak for DUMB.
Truer words were never spoken
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Frankly, from my point of view, there's no damn difference other than rhetoric between a facist and a communist. They all destroy personal freedom and make citizens slaves of the State. And eventually a lot of them become mass murderers. Stalin and Mao killed just as many, if not more, people than Hitler.
Remind me of this while I am working on my magnum opus: Slavedrivers: A History of the Twentieth Century.
The people who try to point out tiny little differences between the SLAVEDRIVERS are pathetic.