Gautam wrote: > > In all honesty, Alberto, I think you're imposing the > perceptual filter of your, well, paranoia about > multinationals upon our decision-making when > there is no grounds for it. > Maybe, but my experience with multinationals suggest that no matter how paranoic I am, that might not be enough :-)
> Dictators that are hospitable to American > companies are usually hospitable to Americans, in general. > Like, say, Pinochet? Or is _Missing_ a fictional movie? > I'm sorry - the Turkish government has used nuclear, > chemical, or biological weapons against the Kurds? > I'd like a cite on that, please. > I don�t know, I am quite sure they didn�t use biological or nuclear weapons, and I guess they didn�t use chemical either, but there is a genocide going on, and I don�t think someone whose family is killed by TNT will be less sorry than someone whose family is nuked. > > What I don't understand is why you feel that our tactics > should be invariant with respect to circumstance. > Egypt is different from Iraq. Why shouldn't we act > differently with regards to Iraq than we do to Egypt? > That's not immoral or hypocritical - it just make sense. > That�s ok, but isn�t exactly this what the USSR did? Or the Roman Empire? I am objecting to the assertion that the USA is a pure force of Good, when the USA is just removing enemies and replacing them with allies. There�s no New World Order being created, but just the Old World Order with another Empire that wants to increase its influence over the world. > And by doing so, they help their own countries profit as > well. The experience of South Korea, China, and India, > has something to add to these cases. If you open your > country to the world - you _will_ be exploited. > But, as South Korea, China, and India have learned - you > are _better off_ being exploited than not being exploited. > South Korea is virtually an industrialized country, for > goodness sake. 50 years ago it was rubble. > This is progress. Every non-industrialized country in > the world should only hope for such exploitation. > OTOH, there�s Argentina and Venezuela, contries that were rich some years ago and after having opened their economies to the world are quickly becoming rubble. Alberto Monteiro
