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Politics : Don't Blame Me, I Voted For Kerry

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To: ChinuSFO who wrote (32586)	6/29/2004 12:49:48 PM
From: Richnorth	Read Replies (1) of 81568

I totally agree with your assessment! In former times, by means of their military might, European maritime nations successfully colonized a number of nations all over the world that had natural resources much coveted by them. In many instances, resistance against the invaders proved futile and so the colonial powers enjoyed sovereign sway for quite a long time. Since then times have changed: those who were colonized have become enlightened and they eventually achieved their independence by constitutional and other means. In Asia especially, the tide of nationalism rose and the myth of invincibility of the western colonial masters was shattered once and for all during and soon after World War II (1945). Today former nations that were hobbled under the colonial yoke have a good understanding of international politics (geopolitics) and will no longer submit to humiliation. It is unfortunate that America, a self-professed enlightened nation, is apparently ignorant of this fact. Perhaps to be fair, I should say that it is the Bushies are a bunch of ignorant folks who are much too intoxicated with power and are exhibiting the power syndrome --- all power corrupts and abolute power corrupts absolutely --- to the point of being convinced that might is right! It seems to me America didn't learn or has forgotten the lesson of Vietnam where the populace fought so very tenaciously to assert their national identity and sovereignty. ================================ PS. I believe it is safe to say that a good number of posters here on SI hadn't heard of Vietnam because they were born in the late 1960s or early 1970s, and many don't know world history because it has not been offered in the high school curriculum.

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