Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: $Revision: 1.6.2.16 $; site ISM780.UUCP Path: utzoo!lsuc!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!bellcore!decvax!cca!ISM780!michaelf From: michaelf@ISM780.UUCP Newsgroups: net.politics Subject: Re: Re: American Foreign Policy: A Clari Message-ID: <37400018@ISM780.UUCP> Date: Thu, 16-Jan-86 16:20:00 EST Article-I.D.: ISM780.37400018 Posted: Thu Jan 16 16:20:00 1986 Date-Received: Sat, 18-Jan-86 17:45:59 EST References: <1029@mmintl.UUCP> Lines: 15 Nf-ID: #R:mmintl:-102900:ISM780:37400018:000:344 Nf-From: ISM780!michaelf Jan 16 16:20:00 1986 I've always heard the U.S. described as a democratic republic. We may have checks and balances built in our system but the checkers and balancers in office are there because some special interest group paid for them to get there. Is it possible that we are a mulitnational oligarchy?