On Apr 28, 8:03 pm, "David Kane" wrote:

I will just repeat that you seem unaware of the actual facts
surrounding the match. You cannot rely on Evans for
unbiased information. Evans is the classic USCF
apparatchik. When the Chess Life "bosses" demand
cold war rhetoric - he complies. Say or write anything
to maintain lifetime employment, that's the ticket.

I'm not nominating Karpov for sainthood -
the Soviets displayed horrendous sportsmanship
(as did Korchnoi) and he was certainly part of it.

What you refer to as "cold war rhetoric" I view as the simple facts.

Even today, evil bullies like Kim Jong Il in North Korea, Hu Jintao in
Red China, or Robert Mugabe in Zimbabwe, continue to stunt the lives
of millions. It isn't dishonest to say that where these people belong
is behind bars, so that the people of their countries could be happy
and free like Americans are.

Posting from Google Groups, ironically, I have for the past few weeks
seen as a "related link" a news item about Karpov choosing to visit
Cuba to help promote chess there.

From September 1, 1939 to June 4, 1989 was nearly 50 years. This is a
very large hole in the lifetime of a human individual, so even those
people in Poland who did not perish as a result of World War II and
the Communist tyranny that followed Hitler's defeat, even those people
who did not die from natural causes during this long time, would not
really be able to simply proceed from the point at which Poland
regained its freedom to make up for all the missed opportunities they
suffered during this long time when Poland didn't enjoy peace,
prosperity, and freedom.

This shows how much human tragedy dictatorship can cause, so
dictatorship should not be allowed to exist. Virtually all the
problems in Poland during those 50 years can be traced to a few evil
men.

A few evil men, whether or not they live or lived in Indonesia,
presumably are also responsible for stirring up the popular sentiment
that has led to the evil, wicked, and abominable attack by a mob on an
Ahmadiyya mosque in Indonesia that I heard of in yesterday's news.
Muslims who think that they are justified in raising their hands in
force against peaceful people simply because those people have beliefs
different from theirs - clearly are travelling down the same road of
insanity that led to the events of September 11, 2001.

It is true, therefore, that sometimes there are people who are not
ready for democracy, since they would not freely choose to fully
respect minority rights.

If we are to avoid both dictatorships on the one hand, and mob rule
that disrespects minority rights on the other hand, then we have two
admissible forms of government. Where the people are prosperous and
educated enough to respect minority rights, democracy. Where they are
not, colonial rule from a democracy, until the necessary cultural and
educational level is achieved.

Of course, this won't solve all the world's problems, just the
unnecessary ones artificially created by a few evil men, and added to
the big problems we unavoidably face.

How do we guarantee that every child has enough to eat?

How do we guarantee that every little boy, of normal or greater
intelligence, who is willing to pay attention in school, will be able,
when he grows up, to find a job that pays well enough to allow him to
marry and start a family?

How do we guarantee that every child will be able, if his or her
intelligence is sufficient, to attend college, without the necessity
of learning a second language if it would not be directly relevant to
his or her chosen field of study?

While it is true that dictators and terrorists make these problems
worse, even without this exacerbation, these are problems the solution
of which is dependent on available resources.

For someone to become a particle physicist or electronics engineer who
can't hold a conversation in any language other than English is
perfectly commonplace these days. But for the principle of universal
equality of all individuals, regardless of their ethnic background, to
apply, this must become equally possible if one substitutes "Hawaiian"
or "Basque" or "Inuktitut" or "Yi" or "Tibetan" or "Arunta" or even
"Malayalam" or "Armenian" for English above.

This would require the relevant linguistic communities to expand in
size, so that they could support the necessary infrastructure for a
diverse economy which could, within itself, without excessive levels
of dependency on external sources, provide every kind of employment
opportunity, particularly including those at the highest levels.

So, if in the English-speaking world, you can join Intel, and help
design the next generation of the Streaming SIMD extensions for use in
x86 processors, in the Armenian-speaking world, you could join another
company that designed from scratch the architecture of the equally
powerful microprocessors used there. Or you could work for the company
that wrote the most popular commercial operating system for computers
using these microprocessors.

How do we have the smallest ethnic groups grow to be big enough so
their communities have parity with the United States, so that each of
them can have their own Sibelius and their own Verdi and their own
George Lucas... and also ensure that the world can grow enough food so
that everyone has enough to eat, even with them all eating as well as
Americans do?

There's another good reason for getting rid of dictators and
terrorists. To increase material production so vastly, without
destroying the world, we will need to use sources of energy that don't
spew vast amounts of greenhouse gases, particulates, and poisons into
the air. And they will have to provide unconstrained quantities of
energy, so warm and fuzzy solar, geothermal, and wind power, even if
they can help, aren't going to be enough by themselves. With current
technology, this means nuclear power.

Also, we will need to send a few people into space to establish
colonies there, so that habitats can be built from the asteroids and
fertilizer obtained from the comets of the Kuiper Belt

John Savard