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I meant no harm, please read all my words in those posts.

Another perspective:

Diogenes was reputed to have said, "I am a citizen of the world." He knew that the invitation to think as a WORLD citizen was, in a sense, an invitation to be an exile from the COMFORT of patriotism and it's easy sentiments, to see our own ways of life from the point of view of JUSTICE and THE GOOD. The accident of where one is born is just that, an accident, any human being might have been born in any nation.

Recognizing this, his Stoic successors, said we should not allow differences in nationality or class or ethnic membership or even gender to erect barriers between us and our fellow human beings. We should recognize humanity wherever it occurs and give its fundamental ingredients of reason and moral capacity our FIRST ALLEGIANCE and RESPECT

Or perhaps this perspective:

Remember any state has a primary enemy: its own population. If politics begins to break out inside your own coutry and the population starts getting active, all kinds of horrible things can happen (like real democracy) - so you have to keep the population quiescent and obedient and passive. And international conflict is one of the best ways of doing it: if there's an enemy around, people will abandon their rights, because the state needs to survive. So war is functional in that respect - it creates global tension and a mood of fear.

I direct these views not just to you but to all readers.

As for your question about a small part of a post - I referred to your post of 5/11/2003 6:15pm PDT number 9. Perhaps my words were too strong; I was trying to make a point. Sorry. This is unfortunately what happens too often when the emotions of the moment hijack the mind and the heart.