[Foundation-l] Reply to Mark

[Jussi-Ville Heiskanen]

On 3/1/08, Ray Saintonge <saintonge at telus.net> wrote:
> 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

Lessee, how many states were there in the compact during the articles of
confederation? Never acquired any territories, no-no (won't go to
rehab, no-no...)



Jussi-Ville Heiskanen, ~ [[User:Cimon Avaro]]