Well, well, well, Richnorth, I think it can safely be said that noone who holds S.Korean debt wants to see them default. I'd bet that holds especially true for Japan.
I think you really ascribe the US more power and influence than it has in reality. I'm still curious as to how the "perpetrators" engineered this crisis. Was it Greenspan? Did he "perpetrate" this mess by strategically adding and removing reserves from the Federal Reserve banking system? Did Rubin orchestrate an attack on the Asian currnecies, dumping his massive reserves of won, ringitt, and baht onto the market? C'mon, get real !!
If Clinton and his boys wanted to wreck East Asia, they'd close our markets to them and put a moratorium on US investment in East Asia. If you want real-world examples of this, see Iraq, Iran, Cuba and until lately, Vietnam The obvious agenda has long been, and continues to be, free markets and free trade. To encourage those who want to move in that direction, and starve-out the rest, namely all of those assholes in the world who want to rule their populations with an iron fist. Economic freedom is equivalent to personal freedom, you can't have one without the other.
You forget that its largely because of the US that South Korea simply exists. If our agenda were to stifle economic growth and prosperity, we need only have encouraged the North to overrun them a long time ago and the problem would solve itself. Ditto for the Soviets and Western Europe. The idea that you cannot have proserity yourself without looting somebody else is an insanity that does not originate in the US, thank you very much. Like many in the West, our leaders may be financially corrupt but they are not insane.
And maybe my feathers do get ruffled. I am still aquainted with people who fought in such long forgotten places as Chosin. You will forgive me if I gag when I read about the American Agenda of Ruin. Unfortunately, there are still US soldiers patrolling the DMZ in Korea. Take a look at life North of the border there, you might gain a different perspective on US influence.
Tom
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