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>>> Or is it that the US is not really concerned with Human Rights at all, but
>>> rather with buying influence among certain nations?
>>
>>Bingo - give the man a cigar.  he just found the real motivation behind
>>the US, that of the world's bully.
> 
>Bingo. Let's give you a cigar as well. For the amazing revelation
>that the motivation behind the US government's foreign policy is the 
>protection and advancement of American interests. Ooh. What a shocker.
>
>Dave Eisen    dkeisen@leland.Stanford.EDU   Sequoia Peripherals: (415)
967-5644

*cough cough*  Never could handle cigars!  :)

Now...sure the US protects its interests.  But we do so while being totally
hypocritical.  Take two examples:

Noriega:  We were perfectly happy to feed him monay and support, and we
were perfectly happy to turn a blind eye to his oppressing his people, rigging
elections, etc.  It was only when his drug-running was getting heavy that we
decided he was evil and had to go.

Saddam:  For _years_ we gave him money, arms, and more or less didn't care
what he did to his own people.  He was a brutal, petty dictator, but he was
OUR brutal petty dictator.  It was only when he decided to act on his own 
(and threatened "OUR OIL") that he became the "next Hitler".

If we're going to be a global bully, let's at least be open and forget being
this great "land of the free and morally upright" bullshit.



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In article <0eSpSHe00WB6F5HpBR@andrew.cmu.edu> dh4j+@andrew.cmu.edu (David O Hunt) writes:
>> Or is it that the US is not really concerned with Human Rights at all, but
>> rather with buying influence among certain nations?
>
>Bingo - give the man a cigar.  he just found the real motivation behind
>the US, that of the world's bully.

Bingo. Let's give you a cigar as well. For the amazing revelation
that the motivation behind the US government's foreign policy is the 
protection and advancement of American interests. Ooh. What a shocker.



-- 
Dave Eisen    dkeisen@leland.Stanford.EDU   Sequoia Peripherals: (415) 967-5644
          	Some of my best friends are men.
        --- Lisa Nee in "American Women Deserve a Tax Break."

>>>> Or is it that the US is not really concerned with Human Rights at all, but
>>>> rather with buying influence among certain nations?

>>Bingo. Let's give you a cigar as well. For the amazing revelation
>>that the motivation behind the US government's foreign policy is the 
>>protection and advancement of American interests. Ooh. What a shocker.
>>

>If we're going to be a global bully, let's at least be open and forget being
>this great "land of the free and morally upright" bullshit.

Why?

That certainly wouldn't be in our best interest. As long as there is
*some* element of morality in American foreign policy (and I think
there is), we might as well try to utilize this with a PR campaign.

But I wouldn't worry if I were you. I would be most surprised if
a single foreign government took any of our claims of moral
justification for our actions seriously.



-- 
Dave Eisen    dkeisen@leland.Stanford.EDU   Sequoia Peripherals: (415) 967-5644
          	Some of my best friends are men.
        --- Lisa Nee in "American Women Deserve a Tax Break."