America didn't enter WWII for altruistic reasons
and only did so in a state of anger when the
Japanese foolishly bombed the 6th fleet at Pearl
Harbour. Before then America was 'helping' the
European 'allies' with provisions and armaments
but only in exchange for European industrial
assets in America bought at basement level prices.
KSH
At 17:04 23/05/2011, you wrote:
Thats a very ungrateful version of
things. Perhaps my uncle should have just
stayed home rather than flying 36 missions in a bomber over Germany.
REH
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Subject: [Futurework] America -- the stalling state
The following is from The New Yorker of 16 May
and well describes the failed state of Pakistan.
The other failed states which America has tried
to 'help' in more recent years are Iraq and
Afghanistan. The state which America helped the
most -- because it ruled it totally for a number
of years -- was Japan. That's not so much a
failed state as a stalled state (it stalled when
America clobbered it with the Plaza 'Accord' in
the 1980s) -- to which state America is highly
likely to become itself unless Obama can somehow
sort out its budget this summer. This is
probably the last opportunity he -- or America
-- will. It may even become a failed state in
future years if the only really important assets
it presently has -- its scientific researchers
-- are recruited elsewhere (just as America
recruited the cream of European science in the last century).
Keith
<<<<
THE DOUBLE GAME
Lawrence Wright
It's the end of the Second World War, and the
United States is deciding what to
do about two immense, poor, densely populated
countries in Asia. America chooses
one of the countries, becoming its benefactor.
Over the decades, it pours billions
of dollars into that country's economy, training
and equipping its military and
its intelligence services. The stated goal is to
create a reliable ally with strong
institutions and a modern, vigorous democracy.
The other country, meanwhile, is
spurned because it forges alliances with America's enemies.
The country not chosen was India, which 'tilted'
toward the Soviet Union during
the Cold War. Pakistan became America's protégé,
firmly supporting its fight to
contain Communism. The benefits that Pakistan
accrued from this relationship were
quickly apparent: in the nineteen-sixties, its
economy was an exemplar. India, by
contrast, was a byword for basket case. Fifty
years then went by. What was the result
of this social experiment?
India has become the state that we tried to
create in Pakistan. It is a rising
economic star, militarily powerful and
democratic, and it shares American interests.
Pakistan, however, is one of the most
anti-American countries in the world, and
a covert sponsor of terrorism. Politically and
economically, it verges on being
a failed state. And, despite Pakistani avowals
to the contrary, America's worst
enemy, Osama bin Laden, had been hiding there
for years - in strikingly comfortable
circumstances - before U.S. commandos finally
tracked him down and killed him, on
May 2nd."
>>>>
Keith Hudson, Saltford, England
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Keith Hudson, Saltford, England http://allisstatus.wordpress.com/2011/05/
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