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From: Timothy Shary <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: 24 July, 2000 11:13 AM
Subject: Re: WAR HELP
---I quote
).  And also like the Gulf War, afterward the U.S.
government was faced with the debacle of how to help the tortured citizens
of the areas that they had so effectively helped to "liberate", leading to
years (if not generations) of tension between those nations and the U.S.
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What a generous interpretation. I've always understood these two invasions
as US Imperialism with no intent to "help" the pople who were "liberated".
For example in the Phillipines the US stayed and fought against the
Filipinos for years after the Spanish quit, in order to make the Philipines
part of the empire due the US throught its "manifest destiny", leading
ultimately to the bombing of Pearl Harbor and the taking fo Batan by the
japanese to drive us out of the area that they thought was their "manifest
destiny"

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