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To: Ilaine who wrote (142056)	7/30/2004 4:47:02 PM
From: marcos	Respond to of 281500

He mentions in the foreword that he is not familiar with Latin America, and his associate Butler would write on it later ... LA was not central to any hot disputes at the time, i guess, compared to Palestine, China, Europe, etc .... this was early 1948, couple of years after Churchill's 'iron curtain' speech, yet just at the beginnings of the period during which all foreign affairs on the planet became re-defined as a struggle for/against communism ... by 1950 that was complete, you get speeches by McCarthy, Acheson, Dulles, and several others, showing that there were really no other factors being considered ..... by makers of major policy, anyway, of course various peasant and campesino societies all over knew little of this, tended to be more concerned with crops and weather and how much the local dictator was going to rip them off for this year It is said that the world changed fundamentally on 11.09.01 ..... 3,000 people died in those towers and aircraft .... 30,000 people died in Reagan's filthy little war on the nicaraguan countryside, 3,000,000 vietnamese were killed between '45 and the 70s .... yet these are not considered to be pivotal, important in any way, just footnotes .... hmmm, eh