Thomas Lunde quoted:
> Sooner or later, you run out of room. [...] In
> parts of the world where peoples were confined by geographical barriers or
> by the pressure of other peoples, it was reached some time ago.
An illustration of this is the following text (from a Canadian) on how
U$ imperialism had to sweep around the Globe after the "civilisation"
had reached the West coast: Globalisation aka opening the world's markets
for U$ products after the cancer ran out of room on the own continent.
(Not that the EU imperialists were any better some centuries before..)
Greetings,
Chris
"The [Kosovo] war is the culmination of a century's determined
foreign/economic policy by the U.S. Before 1890, surplus
industrial production could always be sold in the
territories and the emerging states of the union as the tide
of immigration swept west, ethnically cleansing the
indigenes that got in the way. After 1890 the problem of
surplus production became rapidly acute, crystallizing in
the 'Open Door Notes' of 1899 and 1890.
'American factories are making more than the American
people can use; American soil is producing more than they
can consume. Fate has written our policy for us; thwe trade
of the world must and will be ours.' -- Albert J. Beveridge,
April 1897.
In brief, the 'open door' means that U.S. citizens, and
more importantly U.S. corporations, are free to go anywhere
in the world they please, take anything they like, and leave
without paying for it. Of course, this is wrapped up in
hypocrisy, as:
'We want a reciprocity that will give us foreign markets
for our surplus products, and in turn will open our markets
to foreigners for those products [read raw materials] which they produce and
which we do not.' -- William McKinley, January 1895."
