From: joedees@bellsouth.net
Date: Sun 10 Nov 2002 - 20:04:29 GMT
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> Kenneth,
> At what price will the US succeed this time, South- America, Asia, > >
> Europe or will Bush try to get the funding from his own national > >
> reserves !? Joe, > The US is wealthy, but not infinitely so. It
> cannot support the entire rest > of the world. So, the squeaky wheel
> gets the grease. Back then it was > the Axis; these days it is the
> Greater Middle East. Europe was to aid > Africa. > BTW: Germany and
> Japan are grateful for the US Marshall Plan aid > that rebuilt their
> devastated countries; let's hope the US can do as well > in
> Afghanistan and Iraq. > South America receives some US aid, but they
> are in better condition, > and pose less of a terrorist threat, than
> the Greater Middle East. And > the relative wealth and industry of
> the Pacific Rim nations is quasi- > legendary.
>
> I suppose they were, but I don 't think, my personal opinion on that,
> that the US will ever re- built Iraq or Afghanistan ! Not even far
> from it ! The US is already considering the possible negative power-
> balances in the region if either Iraq or Afghanistan is re- built !
> The US is already countin' in the reflex of a re- built would have on
> its own future foreign policy. Come on, don 't be naive, what the US
> does is for its profit...all the rest is wishful thinking from our
> side of the water.
>
> Europe promised to re- built Yougoslavia, ' we ' never built a bridge
> ! Have you seen in what way we re- built Mostar- Bridge !? Shame,
> shame !!
>
> Kenneth
>
If those countries are rebuilt as participatory democracies, any power
they accrue could be a positive counterbalance to the theocracies and
dictatorships in the area. Besides which, as I said before, the US has
seen the cost of NOT engaging in nation-building, and it is far greater
than the cost of engaging in it.
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