From: Spudboy100@aol.com
Date: Sun Apr 13 2003 - 12:35:39 MDT
Brendan wrote:
<<Spike thinks we should include expenditures on toppling popularly-elected
governments and installing dictatorial puppet regimes (Iran, anyone?).
I can't see that this counts as "aid." But, if my experience with
individual humans (myself included) is at all applicable to international
relations (heh), simply giving people money is rarely helpful, as they
don't know what to do with it.
-Brendan <bmc@section9.net> >>
If you think that the 'elected' ayatollahs in Iran were the result of a
genuine popular election, then I would say that you must be viewing some sort
of Harry Potter cosmos where this occurs. The ayatollahs and their police,
the Savaama, control the ballot box and who gets elected,
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