Dear Colin:
What a delightfully imaginative idea. It reminds me of an old joke, if you
are going nowhere, start a war with the US, after a few token battles,
surender. The US will then loan or give you the money to rebuild your
country. Not only should we punish aggressors, we should reward the
victims. This would go a long way to ensuring future dictators from abusing
their population as they would get punished and their enemies would get the
rewards - poetic justice - I say:
Respectfully,
Thomas Lunde
>>Campaign for Digital Democracy
>>
>>A Digital Future for Kosovo?
>>
>>by Marc Strassman
>>
>>
>> Half a century after it wrecked havoc in Germany, the U.S. Air Force has
>>again reduced the infrastructure of a European nation to rubble. Again,
>>the time has come to talk about rebuilding a country's devastated physical
>>plant.
>>
>> Why not do what worked so well for the Allies after World War II and
>>rebuild Kosovo, not as it was, but as it could be? Why not use the
>>billions that will no doubt be appropriated and spent there to give its
>>million people the technology to not just restore their level of
>>subsistence, but to move them, en masse and now, into the 21st century,
>>the internet century.
