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Subject:	Re: Misperceptions of America (Was: Conversation w/ a LEGO Rep)
Newsgroups:	lugnet.off-topic.debate
Date:	Fri, 27 Aug 1999 15:24:31 GMT
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Sproaticus wrote <37C57A41.F8EBB1BC@io.com>... <snip> > Yah, I guess the Phillipinos would have rather been content with the • Marcos' > home-grown flavor of tyranny. (1) > > I know, I know, the Marcos' fled from a popular revolt roughly six years > before Pinatubo blew. My point is that the U.S. presence was the lesser > evil when compared to Ferdinand's home-grown (and recently increasingly > popular) flavor of corruption. Marcos' couldn't do what he did without the support and approval of the U.S. government. Do you have any ideas what happened in the Marcos' era? (What was the country Marcos did escape to in -86?). The Philippines has a sad and long (some 400 hundred years [compare that to the "independence" of the U.S.]) history of foreign rulers (first spaniards, then yankes, then japanes and once again yankes). I mean a big country can do whatever is good for it and nevermind the local people? > > I guess U.S. is the only country in the world, > > still having some (major) colonnialistic toughts. > > I agree -- that your guess is just a guess. At last glance, France and > China and Russia and India and Pakistan and Iraq and a bunch of other > powerful nations had their eye towards expanding their borders. We > Americans may have a longer history of imperialism than others, but we're > definitely not alone. Being not alone is no excuse. U.S. is still a young nation, but hopefully it will mature and take the responsible actions to correct the past problems it has generated. (A young boy with deadly weapon is definetley a dangerous compination best to avoid). <snip> -et

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		Re: Misperceptions of America (Was: Conversation w/ a LEGO Rep)
(...) What problems has the U.S. generated? Examples please, not just vague generalities. What do you suggest we do? Give out more money? Apologize? What would make you feel better? Name one country that did not do anything wrong in it's history. (...) (25 years ago, 27-Aug-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

		Re: Misperceptions of America (Was: Conversation w/ a LEGO Rep)
(...) Nor the Swiss, in whose banks he has around, what, $2 billion? But I digress. It's not as if the U.S. claimed the Phillipenes as a colony (1). The Phillipines had their own government, and Marcos didn't need permission from us to do anything. (...) (25 years ago, 27-Aug-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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		Re: Misperceptions of America (Was: Conversation w/ a LEGO Rep)
(...) Well, what do you know -- it really was destroyed. The homes on the base were buried under four feet of ash. (...) Yah, I guess the Phillipinos would have rather been content with the Marcos' home-grown flavor of tyranny. (1) I know, I know, (...) (25 years ago, 26-Aug-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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