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To: Ilaine who wrote (31047)	4/9/2003 12:51:51 AM
From: elmatador	Respond to of 74559

"a son of a bitch, but he is alright because he is our son of a bitch." He criticized what he saw as U.S. double standards in the region, recalling former U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt's statement that Nicaraguan despot Anastasio Somoza was "a son of a bitch, but he is alright because he is our son of a bitch." asia.reuters.com Indonesia's Suharto. Paraguay's Stroessner. Chile's Pinochet. Bolivia's Hugo Banzer. Iran's Reza Pahlavi. A long line of US-owned son of bitches. But there's a little difference now. The world is not accpeting autocrats. They fall one-by-one. Did we need US troops to get rid of dictators in South America? No. Did Indonesia needed US forces to let Suharto join other autocrats in history's dust bin? No. The US is going agais the arrow of time. It is an anachronicn gun boating that is not going to end well.