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From: barry@ames.UUCP (Kenn Barry)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: Thoughts on America Bashing
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Date: Wed, 24-Jul-85 18:26:22 EDT
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>	The countries in Central America hate America, yet the refugees from
>the wars in those countries try to come to America.  It certainly would be 
>easier to go to some other Central American country (Mexico, for example), yet
>they risk their lives to come here.  Why?
>	Naabi Berri (sp?), the Shiite Moslem leader involved in this most recent
>hijacking, has a green card from this country.  Pretty peculiar for someone who
>hates America.
>[other examples of America-bashers who nonetheless want to live in the
>US, excised for brevity]

	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. But our treatment of the peoples of
other lands is all too often exploitative and self-serving. Simply put,
they hate America's foreign policy, but like how we run our country
internally.

-  From the Crow's Nest  -                      Kenn Barry
                                                NASA-Ames Research Center
                                                Moffett Field, CA
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