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2003-04-08 19:45:34
More Fun with Idiotic Examples:
I do this a lot, but I can't help myself, poorly chosen historical anologies just ride the wrong hitch up my bum: "the U.S. has never remained in occupation of any country that it conquered for a long time and that, at the end of the occupation, left those countries more prosperous and more democratic. The examples they cite include the Philippines".
Hold up, the "constitutional authoritarianism" of Ferdinand Marcos was hardly "democratizing", however much Reagan praised him for such virtues. The hundreds of thousands of Filipinos that lost their lives during their struggle for independence against the American occupiers probably deserves mention as well, nevermind the constant string of US interferences in the Phillipines over the course of the past century to protect pro-US regimes. For all our "efforts" prosperous it
is
not.
Which is all part of why I expect his otherwise reasonable advice to go unheeded, because this administration is being run by a bunch of post-McKinley neo-Reganite American imperialists. Yadda.
:: posted by buermann @ 2003-04-08 06:50:06 CST |
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