At 23:35 -0500 10/2/00, Jim Choate wrote:
On Mon, 2 Oct 2000, James A.. Donald wrote:
James A. Donald:
Famines in Africa are caused by communism and socialism, notably
At 0233 PM 10/1/2000 -0500, Jim Choate wrote
Again, a simple-minded answer to a very complicated issue.
So give an example of an important twentieth century famine not caused by socialism or war.
Um, changing the rules in the middle of the game are we...
How did war get in there and why should I accept it as a synonym to communism? It is clear that war has more causes than communism or socialism.
Because the causes of war are suffeciently diverse and unpredicatable that including war in the pool muddies the waters enough to make things unclear. However I'll bite by asking the inverse of the question- name one large scale famine that occurred in any country not under some form of "forcible rule" (forcible rule being defined as some sort of communist, socialism, or dictatorship, for the purpose of this question). A less precise way of putting this is present one example of a country in which free election are/were taking place for a reasonable period of time, during which that country experienced mass starvation of a significant portion of it's population. -- "As nightfall does not come at once, neither does oppression. In both instances, there is a twilight when everything remains seemingly unchanged. And it is in such twilight that we all must be most aware of change in the air--however slight--lest we become unwitting victims of the darkness." -- Justice William O. Douglas ____________________________________________________________________ Kevin "The Cubbie" Elliott mailto:kelliott@mac.com ICQ#23758827