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To: Neocon who wrote (9228)	5/20/1999 5:37:00 PM
From: robnhood	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 17770

I have not led a sheltered life. Now,,, The reason for most of these pesky , irritating uprisings by so called rebels, terrorists and other assorted nasty names is that they would like a share of the wealth upon which they live.. Nigeria, Sudan and 100's of other places.. By having a ruthless dictator running the target country, we simply have to bribe him and his cronies in order to get at that oil or whatever that these people reside above. The ruthless dictator will, with help keep these "rebels" under control.... Didn't you see the article I posted the other day about how much oil they spill in the Sudan everyday ,,, 50 to 60 thousand barrels a day... Try getting away with that here.. Not only do we not insure that the peasants living on top of the oil recieve anything, we polute the hell out of their enviroment.

To: Neocon who wrote (9228)	5/20/1999 7:16:00 PM
From: D. Long	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 17770

That's an interesting story about you wife Neo, I like that! :) The whole "exploitation" rigamorole is criminal. The development cycle of the Third World after colonial rule is tragic, but hardly exploitation. I made a quick sketch of the situation elsewhere: Message 8842189 Similiarly is the outrage expressed when "sweatshops" in US territories or otherwise overseas are uncovered, such as the infamous Vietnamese Nike and Marianna Islands factories. One hears the same kind of "exploitation" crying about Mexican migrant labor. What people fail to understand is that the extremely low wages (relative to US and Western wages) is the equivelant of many years or months worth of wages in their home country, which these people are more than happy to work for. When the shops in the "sweatshops" of imported Chinese labor working 12, 15 hour days, 7 days a week for months on end were discovered, there was an outrage. But these Chinese laborors insisted that they didnt want a 40 hour week, they came there to work for 2 years and go back to China with the equivelant of 10 years wages for their families. I wish I still had that article so I could cite it, but I think it illustrates the issue of "exploitation" well.