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To: neolib who wrote (151873)	11/17/2004 7:37:01 PM
From: neolib	Respond to of 281500

BTW Don Quixote, U.S.A. by Richard Powell is a very delightful tale poking fun at US/Latin American relations. Well worth reading.

To: neolib who wrote (151873)	11/17/2004 8:19:17 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

You should vacation in Central America and ask the inhabitants what their views on the School of the Americas is for instance. There are plenty of other examples in Latin America and Africa. 1 - We were talking about the Middle East. 2 - Even in Latin America we didn't really have much of an empire. TW, one of Costa Rica's national holiday celebrates the defeat of an American adventure, one William Walker in 1856 who did a good job of nearly conquering Central America. He conquered some of Central America. If he had succeeded in forming an empire it would have been his personal empire, not an empire of the United States. He was an American but the fact that Hitler was born in Braunau, Austria, didn't make the Hitler's imperial vision an Austrian one. Tim