From dmeadows@idirect.com Fri Aug 24 16:16:04 2001 Received: from mxu103.u.washington.edu (mxu103.u.washington.edu [140.142.33.14]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.11.2+UW01.01/8.11.2+UW01.04) with ESMTP id f7ONG0010768 for ; Fri, 24 Aug 2001 16:16:00 -0700 Received: from mxu3.u.washington.edu (mxu3.u.washington.edu [140.142.33.7]) by mxu103.u.washington.edu (8.11.2+UW01.01/8.11.2+UW01.04) with SMTP id f7ONFxn30662 for ; Fri, 24 Aug 2001 16:16:00 -0700 Received: FROM deimos.idirect.com BY mxu3.u.washington.edu ; Fri Aug 24 16:15:59 2001 -0700 Received: from raoul.idirect.com (on-ham-a53-03-41.look.ca [216.154.52.169]) by deimos.idirect.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id TAA90694 for ; Fri, 24 Aug 2001 19:15:57 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <5.1.0.14.0.20010824191115.03418dd0@idirect.com> X-Sender: dmeadows@idirect.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.1 Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2001 19:11:46 -0400 To: classics@u.washington.edu From: David Meadows Subject: Re: Why the West is Best In-Reply-To: References: <2ladotoalsi55sissiomdq43jrj7br33bj@4ax.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed At 01:48 PM 24/08/2001 -0600, you wrote: > Westerners are more effective killers.... >In the book's fascinating final chapter, he then looks forward to and >ponders the consequences of a complete cultural victory, challening the >widespread notion that democratic nations do not make war on one another: >'We may well be all Westerners in the millennium to come, and that could >be a very dangerous thing indeed.'" Hmmm ... Pol Pot will be offended, I'm sure. dm .