BOC-L Digest - Robert Ashcroft's letter

[Alex S. Garcia]

Hmm, I mostly agree with you, Theo, but, uh, you seem to have ignored
Vietnam... :-)

But anyway. Isn't this, like, totally off topic??



Alex.

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>> re " The U.S.  was the first country born out of the Enlightenment"
>>
>> which would never have happened without Arabic science, btw
>>
>
>So I guess you've already booked your one-way ticket to the Middle
>East?
>
>> re "the US does not invade and hold territory."
>>
>> erm, hello?  would the names Vietnam, West Berlin,
>
>Yeah, I bet the West Berliners really resented that brutal
>occupation, esp. considering they could have had a worker's
>paradise like their East Berlin brethren...
>
>Grenada,
>
>An invited intervention...
>
>Japan etc
>
>A conquered opponent who attacked us first.  I bet, had the
>outcome of the war been different, the US would have gotten very
>fair treatment from the Japanese.  Similar to that meted out to the
>Koreans, Chinese, Burmese, etc...
>
>All we did was rebuild the economy and infrastructure of a nation
>that attacked us, with the result being their factories are now the
>greatest in the world--except perhaps for Germany, another nation
>exploited by the conquering Americans...
>
>theo
>
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