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?
Ec
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