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To: D. Long who wrote (101065)	6/11/2003 8:27:25 AM
From: michael97123	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Hi Derek, Jacob's problem is that he looks at history out of context and filters it through his ideological pre-conceptions. If the US was as bad as he says vis a vis the Phillipines for instance, we wouldn't have had that WW2 heroic partnership with the Filipinos against the Japanese, would we? Or even now against the terrorists. Colonialism existed back then. The US largely stayed out but when we did play a colonial role we were the quickest to exit the space. This is not at all to say we have an unblemished record. Too often american business interests superceded the local aspirations of the people but again if it is looked at in historical perspective we do not rate that badly. Now is a different time and its time for the Jacobs of the world to recognize that fact. Too many of the anti-neocons on this thread sound so much like the Republicans who never failed to say a bad thing about FDR in the 40s and 50s. We called them reactionaries. I suggest much of the left clings to tired old ideological assumptions. Mike