That would be nice. Instead of hereditary kings we have the corprate ideals of Brown & Root in Vietnam and of Haliburton in Iraq.
Are you trying to be sardonic? I don't know about you, but I prefer the idea of a meritocracy to its converse.
Plausible deniability. Who was around during the Clinton administration that was directly affected by the sins of the Cleveland administration? It's easy to apologize when it's too late for any other meaningful act. The Catholic Church recently even apologized to Gallileo. Without even getting into whether the Bay of Pigs invasion was a good idea the fact is that the Kennedy administration was quick to distance itself from that operation when it saw that it was turning into a complete failure. What kind of an ally is that?
You may want to take a moment and think about what you're saying. We're talking about the Cleveland administration, after all, a period of time during which the most urgent of diplomatic messages took *weeks* to deliver. Even the wildest conspiracy theories don't propose such orchestration, in part because "plausible deniability" was an entirely alien (and unnecessary -- consider Manifest Destiny) concept.
By allowing free enterprise to start the problems the US govenment can then reject its surrogates when things are going too badly, or send in the marching bands when there's glory to be had.
Brilliance.
This is a question of collective guilt, not individual guilt. Of course those whose families did not immigrate into the US until after that time had no connection with the event.
And those whose great-great-great uncles were plantation slaves do?
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