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To: Constant Reader who wrote (9312)	9/13/1999 11:43:00 AM
From: shadowman	Read Replies (2) of 9980

> America's policy in recent years of cutting off Indonesia from military education and training may have had the perverse effect of denying the insular Indonesian military the experience of extensive contact with professional soldiers who respect human rights and civilian authority. We indulged our self-righteousness cheaply then, at the price of enabling ourselves to exercise greater influence now.< I have a problem with this speculation. I personally can think of many other expenditures of US funds and effort that I'd rather see. "The military education and training"...."professional soldiers who respect human rights and civilian authority" Would anyone like to submit a laundry list of central and south American military dictatorships that have enjoyed our (US) largesse in this area and went on to make the above premise laughable. It's my understanding that the Indonesian military has also been "educated" to some degree by our own. Must have left the respect for human rights and civilian authority aspects out of the syllabus? 8-{

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