Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site watdcsu.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!watdcsu!herbie From: herbie@watdcsu.UUCP (Herb Chong [DCS]) Newsgroups: net.flame Subject: Re: We need the arms race (well, not quite...) Message-ID: <831@watdcsu.UUCP> Date: Tue, 15-Jan-85 11:43:17 EST Article-I.D.: watdcsu.831 Posted: Tue Jan 15 11:43:17 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 16-Jan-85 03:59:25 EST References: <734@loral.UUCP> <43000005@rna.UUCP> <825@watdcsu.UUCP> <984@hou3c.UUCP> Reply-To: herbie@watdcsu.UUCP (Herb Chong [DCS]) Organization: U of Waterloo, Ontario Lines: 20 Summary: In article <984@hou3c.UUCP> ka@hou3c.UUCP (Kenneth Almquist) writes: >The last time was the 100 year period from the Conference of Vienna to >WWI. That peace was ended when people of unexceptional abilities came >to power simultaneously. Whom was it peace to? I thought the French and the Germans had at least two wars during that period. After all, wasn't that why they wanted to start WWI in the first place, to get even? We are living in a period of relative peace, I suppose with only about ten or so small wars involving two or three countries. Herb Chong... I'm user-friendly -- I don't byte, I nybble.... UUCP: {decvax|utzoo|ihnp4|allegra|clyde}!watmath!water!watdcsu!herbie CSNET: herbie%watdcsu@waterloo.csnet ARPA: herbie%watdcsu%waterloo.csnet@csnet-relay.arpa NETNORTH, BITNET: herbie@watdcs, herbie@watdcsu