-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- In <v03102807afbbf55a7e2d@[207.167.93.63]>, on 06/04/97 at 10:02 PM, Tim May <tcmay@got.net> said:
(Those who have a deeper understanding of anarchy, whether anarcho-capitalism or more leftist variants, tend to understand that the underlying similarities are greater than the differences. Though I favor unrestricted free markets, I understand that corporate agents, like Microsoft, PGP, and RSA, will seek advantage anyway they can, and are a threat in any statist system. Anarchy lessens their power in more ways than one. I will continue to fight my left-anarchist friends on issues like gun control and freedom of association, but we seem to agree that reducing power of central governments remains a good thing.)
There is an old Middle East saying: "The enemy of my enemy is my friend" While such a philosphy can be quite effective taticly it can pose risks strategicly. A good example of this was our support of Iraq durring the Iraq-Iran war even though Iraq had traditionally been a soviet allie. This came back to haut us durring the gulf War as our previous "friend" became a new enemy when truly they were always an enemy and the freindship was temporarily created through a common "enemy". Many other examples of this can be seen in US foreign relations. - -- - --------------------------------------------------------------- William H. Geiger III http://www.amaranth.com/~whgiii Geiger Consulting Cooking With Warp 4.0 Author of E-Secure - PGP Front End for MR/2 Ice PGP & MR/2 the only way for secure e-mail. OS/2 PGP 2.6.3a at: http://www.amaranth.com/~whgiii/pgpmr2.html - --------------------------------------------------------------- -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.3a Charset: cp850 Comment: Registered_User_E-Secure_v1.1b1_ES000000 iQCVAwUBM5ZL/49Co1n+aLhhAQEYcAP/W+CEeEHncKbWTBNsFysc2qMYTcqgrP+q 0ZJhQjrjQUbkb6BtNmLhL6KfGylOjE+Pk0eQyaCz4/pID5xaQvHRbZwPNbMb0xNV G34l20+AR+z83MNW9w/b8C3s4AfS7PwPKxM01LmgxjQNQryKOcL9zhAidou+RWDj +R+HCzSPE4k= =OWy9 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----