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Subject: Re: jrc's comments... - (nf)
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Date: Sun, 11-Sep-83 22:27:29 EDT
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tekcad!franka    Sep 11 13:30:00 1983

	I have an idea. Everyone is bitching about El Salvador these days,
right? And everyone either wants the rebels or the government to be on top,
right? And we know that BOTH sides have had their shares of massacres, rapes,
pillaging, and looting, right? And we know that in any case either side would
make a lousy government, OK? And we know that the only thing we want to happen
is that we don't want the Russkis to make another puppet government, right?
	SO WHY DON'T WE JUST GO IN AND TAKE OVER THE PLACE OURSELVES? Why don't
we annex El Salvador (and while we're at it, the whole North and South American
continents)? We have the arms. We can start by taking over Canada, move into
Mexico, down through Central America and into South America. As we go, we can
annex these countries into states and put them under our constitution. If you
truly believe that our style of life and system of government is the best in the
world, why rule out American expansionism as an alternative? Why try to force
countries with poor economies into a style of government that their economic
systems cannot support? Instead, force them into a merger. As we annex these
countries we can help the people with welfare, tax their people to pay for the
services provided, and say to hell with puppet governments who usually don't
end up doing what we want anyway. We can guarantee the human rights of these
people who would be under our constitution, set up truly free elections, and
not have to worry about the communist threat in out hemisphere any more.
	This is the real world, and this IS a battle between ideologies. If we
don't like the way things are going we CAN change the rules.
					It worked in Eastern Europe for the
					Russians and it can work for us,
						Frank Adrian

P.S. Some of you may think that this is not a serious proposal. I say that it
makes as much sense as trying to Americanize the world indirectly. Personally,
I think that it makes more sense. Historically, the ends DO justify the means
(he who writes the history books says who is right and who is wrong).