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<p>[QUOTE="wlwhittier, post: 9986909, member: 76316"]Yes, AJ...but some are more venerable than others, as I'm sure you would agree. The U.S. has <i>almost </i>250 years since its infancy...more than an order of magnitude younger than the hoary lifetime of the Chinese peoples an' their profound history. </p><p>We're still in diapers, not yet capable of raising our head off the floor or turning over to try crawling...but somehow have the temerity to demand a place among peoples an' nations that have been at the forefront of enlightened awareness for millennia. A nation of infants, as typified by our abysmal political landscape. I could go on...[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="wlwhittier, post: 9986909, member: 76316"]Yes, AJ...but some are more venerable than others, as I'm sure you would agree. The U.S. has [I]almost [/I]250 years since its infancy...more than an order of magnitude younger than the hoary lifetime of the Chinese peoples an' their profound history. We're still in diapers, not yet capable of raising our head off the floor or turning over to try crawling...but somehow have the temerity to demand a place among peoples an' nations that have been at the forefront of enlightened awareness for millennia. A nation of infants, as typified by our abysmal political landscape. I could go on...[/QUOTE]
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