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To: tejek who wrote (263858)	12/8/2005 3:24:42 PM
From: combjelly	Respond to of 1572374

"You fail to point out that the Haymarket Riots was one of the worst miscarriages of justice in American history. " Sure. And it led to the labor movement. Sometimes something really bad has to happen before progress can be made.

To: tejek who wrote (263858)	12/8/2005 4:02:38 PM
From: combjelly	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572374

"In fact, our recent history.....dating from 1980, suggests we are not at all well suited for empire building and bringing the world to an egalitarian point of view." In general, we tend to suck at nation building. When successful the results are quite good. But because we tend to want to do things on the cheap and quickly, we often fail. Those foreign policy failures you point to were the result of that wing who feels we need to have a "pragmatic" foreign policy. It rarely is really pragmatic because it always revolves around short term advantage over long term goals. We backed Saddam because he was at war with the Iranians. We weren't nuts about Saddam, so we supplied him just enough so he wasn't losing or gaining ground. We bought some time, but that was about it. And too much of our foreign policy is exactly the same.