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From: orb@whuts.UUCP (SEVENER)
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Subject: Re: Adams on American Foreign Policy
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Date: Sat, 4-Jan-86 18:31:35 EST
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> U.S. foreign policy has been far from perfect; but no other nation with
> anywhere near our power has behaved nearly as well.
> 
> Frank Adams                           ihpn4!philabs!pwa-b!mmintl!franka

"Far from perfect", hmmm, let's see now:
  
American wars with the Indians and their virtual extermination
 
1848 - American war with Mexico to obtain California and the Southwest

1898 - American war with Spain to obtain Cuba, the Phillipines and
       other Spanish colonies
 
1920's - American troops sent to occupy Nicaragua
 
1954   - American overthrow of the democratic government of Jacob Arbenz
         to be replaced by a military dictatorshil until the present
 
1956   - American overthrow of the democratic government of Mossadegh
         to be replaced by the military dictatorship of the Shah
 
1940's-1954 - American support of the French attempt to regain their
         Indochinese colony with aid of advisers and military supplies
 
1954-1973 - American military intervention in Vietnam, in contravention
         of 1954 Geneva Accords to settle Indochinese conflict.
         American support for the refusal of Diem to hold elections called
         for in 1954 Geneva Accords
         
1973   - American covert support for the overthrow of the democratic
         government of Salvador Allende ending decades of the tradition
         of stable Chilean democracy.  Military dictatorship of Pinochet
         immediately got American and international loans denied to
         Allende's government as he killed and imprisoned thousands.
         Including the bombing of a former Allende government official
         in Washington, D.C.  (needless to say this was not in the medias
         headlines as a case of horrible "internation terrorism")
 
1965  -  American troops sent to the Dominican Republic
 
1984  -  American troops overthrow the government in Grenada
         (note: human rights groups reported last week that labor
          organizers and members of the opposition to the current
          government have begun mysteriously disappearing.  Of course
          others are in jail)
 
1983 -   American mining of Nicaragua's harbor in violation of
         international law and the Treaty of the Organization of
         American States
 
1981-?   American funding for contra campaign of terrorism in Nicaragua
         including bombing, killings, and mutilations.
 
1981     American resumption of arms sales to South Africa's apartheid
         government
 
?(coming soon!) - American funding for Jonas Savimbi's UNITAS party 
         and its campaign of terrorism in Angola with the usual bombings,
         killings, and mutilations.  Savimbi's current major supplier
         is the South African apartheid government which aids him with
         its own troops.  Before that Savimbi got support from China
         as a self-proclaimed Maoist.  Interestingly Savimbi has never
         said he is *not* a Maoist.  Needless to say his organization
         is a bastion of the democracy of Jonas Savimbi -
         "one man one vote" (HA! HA!)

I hope our foreign policy can come a lot closer to perfection than this!!
                  tim sevener    whuxn!orb