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From: gene@batman.UUCP (Gene Mutschler)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: Thoughts on America Bashing
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Date: Sat, 27-Jul-85 11:49:15 EDT
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From the discussion on why all those third world types want to be first
world types...
> 	I think the contradiction's in us, not them. The US treats US
> residents much better than the governments of many countries treat their
> citizens and guests, and we're rich to boot. Nothing hard to understand
> about people wanting to come here.

Exactly.

>				But our treatment of the peoples of
> other lands is all too often exploitative and self-serving.

You have *recent* examples, of course.

A lot of those people would gladly trade that "exploitation" for that of
their current "President For Life".  The names Nyerere (sp?), Obote (and
before him the ever-popular Idi Amin), Mengistu (who once settled an
argument at a cabinet meeting by shooting his antagonist between the eyes),
Khadaffi, Khomeini(ask a Bahai, if there are any left), Karmal, Castro,
and Pol Pot spring to mind.

>								Simply put,
> they hate America's foreign policy, but like how we run our country
> internally.

This presumes that the US has a foreign policy.  As far as I can tell, we
haven't had one since Kennedy gave Cuba to the Soviets after the Cuban
missile crisis.

> 
> -  From the Crow's Nest  -                      Kenn Barry
>                                                 NASA-Ames Research Center
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