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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: LindyBill who wrote (32320)6/14/2002 8:28:26 PM
From: Bilow  Read Replies (1) of 281500
 
Hi LindyBill; Re: "The Brits set up most of the mid east ones, as I recall, and they have stayed in place up to now, except, of course, for the overthrown ones."

Mostly what the Brits did was provide support to leaders who were already in power in one way or another.

Re: "... the ones with governments that hate us have populations that like us." I don't see this. Could you give examples or explain further? Just a few weeks ago US reporters in Iraq were saying that the Iraqi population hates our government. As far as I can tell, most of the population of the world likes Americans, as individuals. It's the government that they have problems with, and that only to the extent that the US gets involved with their (or their allies') internal affairs.

-- Carl
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