[Foundation-l] Reply to Mark

[Ray Saintonge]

geni wrote:
> On 01/03/2008, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton at gmail.com> wrote:
>   
>> What? Since when did America ever speak for any colonies? It was a
>>  colony, it was never a colonial power...
>>     
> Puerto Rico? Various former Spannish colonies acquired at one point?
The Monroe Doctrine was a neo-colonial instrument.  Helping Panama to 
break away from Colombia.  Periodic invasions and skullduggery in small 
countries when the U.S. didn't like the government, as in the Arbenz 
assassination in Guatemala.  The continuing hostile attitude towards 
Cuba and Venezuela because those countries put their own people first. 
Maintaining armed occupation is an expensive way of keeping colonies, so 
they had to find different ways of doing it.

Some might even say that Tony Blair's easy compliance in the invasion of 
Iraq showed that the colonial master role had been reversed. :-)

Ec