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Re: Has Dan Simmons truly lost it or is he just pandering?

From David Johnston <Davidjohnston29@yahoo.com>
Newsgroups rec.arts.sf.written
Subject Re: Has Dan Simmons truly lost it or is he just pandering?
Date 2016-07-10 09:32 -0600
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References (1 earlier) <MPG.31e931e6103443d998a32e@news.eternal-september.org> <oA0C3r.C1s@kithrup.com> <MPG.31ea057cdc04b6cb98a32f@news.eternal-september.org> <oA1CoD.5AG@kithrup.com> <MPG.31eaa494ce7a9fd798a334@news.eternal-september.org>

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On 7/9/2016 5:05 AM, J. Clarke wrote:
> In article <oA1CoD.5AG@kithrup.com>, goldfarb@ocf.berkeley.edu says...
>>
>> In article <MPG.31ea057cdc04b6cb98a32f@news.eternal-september.org>,
>> J. Clarke <j.clarke.873638@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> In article <oA0C3r.C1s@kithrup.com>, goldfarb@ocf.berkeley.edu says...
>>>> the rulers of Pakistan, like all rulers everywhere, want to get and
>>>> hold power.  And because they are not idiots, they know that if terrorists
>>>> explode a nuke and the world even *thinks* they got it from Pakistan,
>>>> they lose everything.
>>>
>>> And what happens if the current rulers are overthrown?
>>
>> See above.
>
> I don't see anything "above" that suggests that the Caliphate agrees
> with you on the matter of how to "get and hold power".
>
> If "getting and holding power" led to rational decisions, Hitler would
> never have gone into Russia

Germany's chances against Russia were quite respectable, had the United 
States not come to Russia's aid.

and Japan would never have bombed Pearl
> Harbor.
>

Japan was actually repeating the same thing that it did in the 
Russo-Japanese war with great success.

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