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From: ins_akaa@jhunix.UUCP (Kenneth Adam Arromdee)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: Myers on nrh on "untrue propaganda"
Message-ID: <1443@jhunix.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 14-Dec-85 13:29:20 EST
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Posted: Sat Dec 14 13:29:20 1985
Date-Received: Mon, 16-Dec-85 19:35:57 EST
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Reply-To: ins_akaa@jhunix.ARPA (Kenneth Adam Arromdee)
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In article <1788@uwmacc.UUCP> myers@uwmacc.UUCP (Latitudinarian Lobster) writes:
>I also been faced during my brief existence with the
>incontrovertible fact that the United States, since the Spanish-American
>War, has gone out of its way to crush any truly progressive government it
>has been able to get its hands on.  I'm willing to go into detail on any
>of the following cases: the Philippines immediately following the joint
>US-Filipino defeat of the Spanish; Chile in the early 1970's; Guatemala
>in 1954; Nicaragua from the 1920's till the present; the Dominican Republic
>in 1965; Vietnam from 1945-1975; Greece following WWII; Spain just before
>WWII; Cuba from 1960 till the present; ad infinitum.
>Jeff Myers				

I would like to know what you mean by "progressive".  Many of these cases don't
seem at all to me like "progressive" governments, unless you're using "pro-
gressive" as a generic term for Communist.  What characteristics do you
consider characteristics of "progressive" governments?

Disclaimer: This does not mean I support all of these US actions.
-- 
If you know the alphabet up to 'k', you can teach it up to 'k'.

Kenneth Arromdee
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