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To: Dayuhan who wrote (44105)	9/15/2002 12:48:18 PM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (2) of 281500

It might be wise to recall at this point that the US has never hesitated to install or prop up dictators in 3rd world countries, any time it suited our immediate interest to do so. Yes, this is exactly the criticism I referred to in my immediately prior post. I've read that thought expressed thousands of times, and you've made it so many times yourself that it simply flows out fully formed in one sentence. Well said. Now, here is the question. Did we do it out of sheer fuggheaded meanness, did we pick the biggest bastard we could find in order to grind the populace down? Or did we pick the best of a bad bunch? Regardless of whether you pick (a) or (b), can we do it better in the future? And if so, how? Most of us have a hard time comprehending the perspective of people of people and cultures that have never known good or even functional government, a situation that prevails over much of the world. You almost sound like a libertarian, but you don't mean it. You believe that good government is possible, as well as desirable. How do we achieve it?

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