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Originally Posted by Ohio
If anything, my comment about a "search for a serpent in every paradise" had awareness in mind more than anyone else. It used to be in his signature line, if you remember. What about my other analogy here, which I put forward in my earlier post ...
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First, I accept your specific thoughts on where you were aiming. But you must admit that I have been a thorn in your side, whether intended or not.
I would say that the analogy concerning America, its soldiers, and those who run things in Washington, there is a level of comparability. But like a lot of analogies, be care how hard you try to milk it. Everything is not comparable. At some level, it is even not the same on the surface.
And for me, the core at which it is not comparable would require that Washington, Jefferson, Adams, and the others set up this experiment in government as a cover for a different one that did not come until generations later. Of course in the case of the LCM it was all started and over within one generation. Lee set up a sham so he could get control. That many seem harsh, but his actions in Taiwan, and those of his predecessor, Nee, in China suggest that what we now have in the LCM is exactly what they wanted. The early stuff was the bait to lure some in.