"Gould 0738" wrote in message
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I doubt that Chuck disagrees completely with the idea of meddling
PEACEFULLY
in order to create favorable political or economic situations.

There's a difference between, "Let me show you the benefits of our
economic
and cultural priorities and see if there might be something there that
will
benefit both of us should you adopt it......"

and

"Let me show the business end of gun bigger than your entire army. You
will now
adopt the following economic and cultural priorities because it will be
good
for the United States if you do...."

Yeah. That's another way of putting it. No matter which method we use, it's
always going to come down to whether there's a win-win ending. If we use
choice B, it'll just take between 2 and 100 years longer.