On 30 Jul 2002 at 14:58, Hermit wrote:
>
> So criticism of illicit and idiotic actions taken by the United States, or
discussion of her trail of broken promises and inept interventions,
irrespective of the reasons for discussing this, is in and of itself
regarded as anti-American? Would you say that your head-in-the-sand
approach is typical of Americans then? If so, would this attitude perhaps
go someway towards explaining why much of the rest of the world
perceives the US as a blundering bully?
>
One may derive more credibility if one leavens one's single-note
drumbeat of the things that the US does wrong with an occasional
mention of the things that she does right, unless one's dogmatic and
pseudoreligious idee fixe is that she neither can nor will do anything
right. In fact, in most of the recent US interventions, we have been
explicitly requested to intervene, either by leaders of the nation in
question or by troubled neighbors who lacked the will or the resources
to do so themselves. The present foreign policy business of the US, in
spite of Dubya's stated reluctance, is nation-building in answer to the
exigencies of dire situations. We may make some mistakes along the
way, but it is deologically driven insanity to maintain that all of our
endeavors in this direction have been mistaken.
>
> Regards
>
> Hermit
>
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