Hi All
On 10 Mar 2002 at 17:03, David Buchanan wrote:
> Risque, Wim and y'all:
>
> RISKY:
> I am quite convinced that there are few things as disfunctional as not
> holding people accountable for their actions. Certainly a guaranteed recipe
>
> for social disaster. I know of no successful societies that took this
> course.
>
> DMB...
> Don't you think the USA should be held accountable for her actions?
> Shouldn't she take responsibility for her foreign policies? I mean, what I
> see missing from the whole "making progress" debate is any discussion of
> that. Its not even a matter of charity or generosity. Its a matter of doing
> injury to other nations and other cultures. This is what breeds resentment
> and terror. Did you know that the USA?...
> Trained and funded Osama bin Ladin. Has sold weapons and given money to
> Saddam Hussein. Sold Indonesia the weapons it used to perpetrate a genocide
> in East Timor. Helped to overthrow a democratically elected government in
> Argentina and installed a military dictatorship. Runs "the school of the
> Americas", which trains terrorists. That Angola's Savimbe, who killed half a
> million of his own people was called "the Abe Lincoln of Africa" by Reagan
> and "one of the true heros of our time" by Jean Kirpatrick. That Henry
> Kissenger is being sued for war crimes. That a third of the planet's
> population current suffers from US economic sanctions. And has supported a
> vast number of repressive regiems throughout the world. I could go on for
> days, but you get the idea. Terrorism is mostly caused by blowback. To
> simply attribute the world's problems to "their" dysfunctionality strikes me
> as a profound abdication of responsibility.
But David, surely you must understand that the USA sees all the above things you
mention as a means of promoting and fostering Freedom and Democracy in the same
way that it intends to apply exorbitant tariffs to imported steel in order to ensure a free
market. Surely you couldn't think that the USA's actions are purely for its own political,
military and economic benefit? Could You!!!!!?? That would be unamerican and
downright cynical!
Horse
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