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Doug Carter wrote in message ...
Alex wrote: You seem to speak about countries bombed by the US / Allies. I am speaking about countries where the US played behind the scenes and helped in the country's destruction, not of their buildings, but of their people. And being unofficial and behind the scenes, and there being no bombed buildings, there is no rebuilding involved. It's not even half empty. It's empty. Period. I was sort of hoping for specific cases with verifiable assertions of fact instead of vague demogarary. As I said to Rob, go search google. There you can find verifiable assertions. I don't know where you can read your government's declasified documents to actually verify what you find in the net, but I'm sure you know. Direct U.S. foreign aid runs about $15-20b/year (before special accounts like Iraq). Unless the U.S. is endeavoring to destroy "most" countries out of pure malice then this wanton destruction would seem to be rather short sighted economics. I never said the motivation was pure malice. I'm sure Nixon and Kissinger thought it was very rational to plant puppet dictatorships in South America, and I'm sure Bush had a very rational reason to invade Irak (whatever that reason is). I'm just saying that their decissions have usually dreadful effects on people around the world. The image of US as the good guy, as Hollywood pretends to portray movie after movie, as the US propaganda, is simply false. Also, countries are not monolitic entities that always act rationally. For example, one theory of why Bush invaded Irak is that his father's friends are making loads of money getting the reconstruction contracts. They say they even signed up those contracts before the bombs fell! So, in other words, it doesn't have to make economic sense for the US, as long as it benefits the individuals in power. |
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