I think that the reality here is that our foreign policy, is opportunistic. If you have a strategic position like Turkey, or oil like Saudi Arabia, then you get lots of financial help, and it doesn’t matter if you rape and pillage, commit genocide, throw homosexuals out of helicopters, or sell Christians as slaves. You have something we need and so we turn a blind eye. The rest of the world may know, see, hear, and vocally express its ire, but the good old US of A neither sees, nor hears nor cares about the screams of the tortured. Its ok if you let our military live on your soil, or you give us your natural resources.
One the strategic positioning of your country is gone, and the resources have dried up, your government become "oppressive" and it is necessary to "topple your government", "free" your people", and bring the "light of democracy" to your mud huts, and your illiterate peasants.
This system gets us what we need. Maybe that’s all that counts…gee, I hope not.
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Re: pitiful
Date: 2003-03-21 08:55 am (UTC)I think that the reality here is that our foreign policy, is opportunistic.
If you have a strategic position like Turkey, or oil like Saudi Arabia, then you get lots of financial help, and it doesn’t matter if you rape and pillage, commit genocide, throw homosexuals out of helicopters, or sell
Christians as slaves. You have something we need and so we turn a blind eye. The rest of the world may know, see, hear, and vocally express its ire, but the good old US of A neither sees, nor hears nor cares about the screams of the tortured. Its ok if you let our military live on your soil, or you give us your natural resources.
One the strategic positioning of your country is gone, and the resources have dried up, your government become "oppressive" and it is necessary to "topple your government", "free" your people", and bring the "light of democracy" to your mud huts, and your illiterate peasants.
This system gets us what we need. Maybe that’s all that counts…gee, I hope not.