Technotranscendence wrote:
>
> On Saturday, March 18, 2000 4:26 PM Octavio Rojas Diaz orojas@data.net.mx
> wrote:
> > I sincerely wish the U.S., was doing what you say, but unfortunately
> > the U.S. is still a very imperialist and interventionist country.
>
> I agree.
>
> > However please note, That this is because of the way the government
> > handles
> > international issues and I'm sure more Americans oppose to imperialism
> > and most
> > most of it's current foreign policies, than those who advocate them.
>
> I don't think it's merely the government to blame here. For example, the
> views I've expoused -- i.e., about the US basically acting like any garden
> variety imperial power (and not the worst of the bunch; I don't want to just
> make a shrill case here) -- all depend on research any US citizen or
> resident can do. I do not have some special gnosis, nor am I privvy to some
> secret proceedings of the State Department, on these issues.
The actions that most anti-US people ascribe to our government are
actually the actions of multi-national corporations. Those corporations
may be using the US govt to do their dirty work, and those corporations
may be based here in the US, or may simply have their most visible
presence here, while they are actually foreign based and/or foreign
owned. One only has to look at the Banana War between the US and Europe
to see that we aren't the only ones with imperialist practices...
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