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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: Dayuhan who wrote (107053)7/22/2003 10:27:49 PM
From: Hawkmoon  Read Replies (1) of 281500
 
The US refused to support freedom in the developing world, in the form of resistance to colonialism, and stuck with the European colonists instead.

I utterly disagree. The US, while not sporting a 100% record in opposing European colonization, was one of the primary forces for advancing it in the post-WWII period. Look at the stance the US took against France-UK during the Suez crisis of 1956. Eisenhower's pressure was decisive in forcing them to pack up and leave the area.

And face it, after the costs and destruction of WWII, few European nations were in a position to maintain their control over their former colonies in the face of Marxist insurgencies.

But what also proved to be the case was that in the face of this vacuum of political power, the US often subordinated the concept of pursuing nation building and democracy in these former colonies, to the fighting the cold war in a series of proxy wars.

And obviously, we required stability at almost any cost to fight that battle, or so the perception was. Defeat Communism first, then push democratic reforms in these colonies.

Well... Communism has been defeated as a major political/economic ideology and now we're paying the price for delaying these needed democratic reforms..

But I'm still a believer that globalization is going to be the ultimate force for democracy. People can only accept their government's excuses for so long as to why they can have what the rest of the world has.

And there are going to be quite a few "special interest" who will prefer imposing their ideas of a perfect society upon those who have something else in mind.

The Internet is probably the greatest weapon available towards defeating totalitarianism and forcing political accountability to the citizens of a nation.

Hawk
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