[thechat] US Elections

Martin Burns martin at easyweb.co.uk
Sun Nov 10 17:10:01 CST 2002


On Mon, 11 Nov 2002, Madhu Menon wrote:

> At 01:50 AM 11-11-02, Martin Burns wrote:
> >Pretty much the only place we
> >didn't own either directly as part of empire or indirectly by commerce was
> >Central & South America.
>
> <tongue type="firmly in cheek">
>
> And now look who the "superpower" is now.
>
> </tongue>

Yep. Empires rise and fall... and they fall particularly quickly when the
focus moves from empire building to empire ruling... which takes much less
imagination.

Cheers
Martin

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