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Old 06-17-2002, 11:45 PM   #89
jaguar
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Not as much as you might think; there's *always* been people happy to sneer at the very things whose benefits they enjoy. :-) Even given how much things have changed, if AU had become part of the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere fifty years ago, I think it likely you'd still be there today.
Its 50 years ago, the fundamentals of international relations ahve changed twice since then, and are changing again, what the heck is your point? That we are somehow indebted to you for the rest of history, that europe is? That germany shoudl never critizise jews becase of the holocost? That kind of mentality? Its *history* now, move on.
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