Re: Iraq War Foes Ready For 2,000th Military Death
- From: "Brian Sharrock" <b.sharrock@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2005 09:20:27 GMT
"Colin Campbell" <activated_95b@xxxxxxxxxxxxx (remove underscore)> wrote in
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> On Sat, 29 Oct 2005 22:21:46 +0100, "William Black"
> <william.black@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>>
>>"Colin Campbell" <activated_95b@xxxxxxxxxxxxx (remove underscore)> wrote
>>in
>>message news:3ol7m1li5pall7cld4c537uvid4go8hh4v@xxxxxxxxxx
>>
>>> >Do you have an example of US inspired and organised 'long term'
>>stability?
>>>
>>> Grenada.
>>> Panama (post 1990)
>>> Honduras
>>> El Salvador
>>
>>Well the whole mess in these places was a US design to start with.
>
> So the history of Central America is something you know nothing about.
>
Newsgroups limited to smn - [b****ship; Mahan; two-oceans et. al :)
Colin doesn't seem to have followed this 'lesson';-
http://www.socialstudieshelp.com/Lesson_63_Notes.htm
The US negotiated the "rights" to build the canal from the British in the
Hay-Pauncefote Treaty and then negotiated with Colombia to gain the Canal
Zone for 10 million and 250,000 per year. After a revolution in Colombia the
new government refused t ratify the treaty. The US, dealing with French
Engineer Phillipe Bunau-Varilla, agreed that if Panamanians revolted the US
would stop the Colombians from interfering. A US fleet, led by the USS
Nashville, entered the harbor at Colon and the next day a revolution broke
out. Four days later the US government recognized Panama and Bunau-Varilla
became the new countries first foreign minister to the US. 12 days later the
Panamanian government agreed to the terms previously offered the Colombians.
Now that America's empire stretched from the Caribbean across the Pacific,
the old idea of a canal between the two oceans took on new urgency. Mahan
had predicted that "the canal will become a strategic center of the most
vital importance," and Teddy agreed. "The canal," Roosevelt said, "was by
far the most important action I took in foreign affairs during the time I
was President. When nobody could or would exercise efficient authority, I
exercised it." ....
{this is _not_ an Anti-USA diatribe] ... but the parallels between
encouraging revolts against constitional goverments which seemed to act
against the wishes of a POTUS; the use of military power etc. would seem to
suggest ... "Well the whole mess in these places was a US design to start
with"
--
Brian
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