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and on amazon.com. Also, the best stuff I've ever used for irritation and razor burn is the After Shave Repair lotion by Anthony Sport. /p> p> MEN, NOT MODELS br> Re: Daniel Griswold's Our New Coalition of the Willing : /p>

The author mistakenly refers to Bolivia, Venezuela and Cuba and their form of government "economic models." I beg to differ. The leaders of each of those countries practices the model of power to himself.

We can watch the fully developed "power model" which is a fully despotic, dictatorship without and economy and without freedom. The people are stultified and lack ambition. They are ill educated and have only enough food to keep body and soul together. Anyone who challenges the orthodoxy is murdered or imprisoned. In order to maintain political stability Mr. Castro rails against the United States and to protect against invasion (always imminent) by the "Yanqui Imperialist dogs" he drafts those most likely to cause trouble -- males between about 17 and 30 into his armed forces where they are watched and tightly controlled.

In Venezuela, a developing "power model" Mr. Chavez has moved neither as brutally nor as quickly as did Mr. Castro. Oddly enough Mr. Chavez is following the Hitlerian model of an army of thugs who batter the opposition into oblivion, physically. Mr. Chavez has now obtained control over the only product of any worth produced in Venezuela, oil, and now controls the media. Mr. Chavez also rails against the U.S. in order to take his people's minds off the fact that no change for "the proletariat" has occurred, nor will it. He is increasing the size of his military and is seeking newer more powerful weapons from his accomplices in Europe. Give him ten more years and his nation will be in political and economic shambles as are those institutions in Cuba.

p>Then we have the child of the group. This may be a horse of a different color for a time. Mr. Morales is an indigenous person and may actually attempt some meaningful economic reform. But this will be short lived. Remember the Sandinistas? Among the first acts of their leaders was to br> confiscate the palatial mansions of their wealthy citizens and move into them, where they still reside today. So that was a revolution designed to get Mr. Ortega a new house. This will be the fate of Mr. Morales. He will be corrupted by gathering to himself all the power there is to had in Bolivia and he will murder not only his countrymen, but his revolution. br> -- Jay W. Molyneaux

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