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Jobb  #61568  Wed, 15 Dec 04 09:03 AM

Will = ?

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Not very long ago, how wonderful was the position of the New World where man had no enemies but himself and to be happy and to be free it was enough to will it to be so.

Today American troops are scattered around the world from the plains of Northern Europe to the mountains of Afghanistan and the plains of Iraq in search of a phantom enemy, bombing and killing innocent Afghan and Iraqi men, women and children.
  
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Mister Micawber  #61577  Wed, 15 Dec 04 09:25 AM

'To will it to be so' means to cause it to be so by willpower.

  
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Jobb  #61604  Wed, 15 Dec 04 01:02 PM
A terse explanation!
  
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