So, America is powerful, that is a fact of history and I can think of nations in whose hands that power would much more need to be feared.
I have no particular brief for American foreign policy, in the past they have done wise and generous things, like the Marshal Plan, and foolish and even shameful things, like their complicity in the overthrow and murder of Chile's Allende, and the bringing to power of that butcher Pinochete. However, the nearest that the US ever came to being led by a megalomaniac was Nixon, and the system defeated him. Many such have ruled in other countries in the world. Hitler, Stalin, Miloshevic, Hussein etc, and Africa seems to be full of them, so perhaps we should thank our lucky stars that the US, rather that any of these tyrants has the upper hand. Don > From: "Peter Michael Bacchus" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Date: Mon, 26 Aug 2002 08:07:40 +1200 > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [globalnews] War on Iraq? Not so fast > > Isn't this a case of the pot calling the kettle black? Which country in the > world has the most weapons of mass destruction? Which country has initiated > the most strikes on other nations? Why havn't other countries initiated pre > emptive strikes on U.S.A.??? > Peter. > >
