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From: drsimon@watlion.UUCP (Daniel R. Simon)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: That dirty 'ol CIA
Message-ID: <7625@watlion.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 24-Mar-86 00:17:49 EST
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Posted: Mon Mar 24 00:17:49 1986
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References: <500@ssc-bee.UUCP> <2038@uwmacc.UUCP> <95@gilbbs.UUCP>
Reply-To: drsimon@watlion.UUCP (Daniel R. Simon)
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In article <95@gilbbs.UUCP> mc68020@gilbbs.UUCP (Tom Keller) writes:
>
>   Face it, those who support the interference by the U.S. in the internal
>affairs of other nations, against the wishes of that nation, are racists,
>or minimally elitists.  They feel that due to the accident of their having
>been born American, they have the right to impose upon others what they
>would *NEVER* tolerate being imposed upoin themselves.  Given that in almost
>every case, America is interfering with non-white nations and peoples, this
>translates very neatly into racism.
>
And this translates very neatly into baloney.  Race is as red a herring as has
ever been introduced into this issue.  Democratic principles, not race, govern 
the motives of (most of) those of us who support western interventionism.

Speaking as a Canadian, I hereby promise that if Canada is ever taken over by a 
dictatorship of any stripe, and the U.S. fails to find the moxie to invade and 
restore democracy, then Japan and Jamaica, democracies both, are both
invited to save me and my hypothetically helpless fellow Canadians.  The man 
(or woman) who returns to me my vote and my voice can be nine feet tall, furry
and green, and still I will cheer him/her on.  The people of Grenada 
apparently feel exactly as I do.  So please don't bring race into an issue
where it doesn't belong--race is brought up far too often as it is.
>
>tom keller
>{ihnp4, dual}!ptsfa!gilbbs!mc68020
>
						Daniel R. Simon

"I would never place a quotation at the end of my posting."
						-D. Simon