A guide to recent history. After World War II, as American corporations

[KlatooBNikto]

were the dominant economic players, the American policymakers presented their smiling and reasonable faces to the world,avoiding any
unpleasant confrontations except when confronted by extreme circumstances.The emphasis was always on working with allies in NATO, through the U.N. and other international agencies.

As American fortunes dwindled and corporations are finding it increasingly harder to assert their market dominance,the harsh military face is becoming more and more apparent.Starting with Nixon's policies in Latin America,Reagan's continuation of those policies and Bush the Elder's expeditions into Panama and Iraq, the world increasingly saw the grim visage of American Imperialism.

The latest chapter in this story of the transformation of the U.S. from economic to military imperialist seeking to loot the oil resources of other countries is being written in Iraq and may well be followed by Iran, the Caspian Basin countries, some West African nations and, may even involve Saudi Arabia if the compliant royalty there falls victim to native revolutionaries.

[scarletwoman]

1. Dead on! Excellent summary!

Good writing. Just want to let you know I appreciate and agree with it.

sw

[politicaholic]

2. But how else do you teach foreign children how to work the american way?

Sure the United States will absorb foreign economies like Walmart sucks up small towns, but you have to ask yourself, isn't it better to sell out your culture for $.50 an hour? All you have to lose is your national identity. Nothing matters more than how Americans perceive your country.

Dignity or integrity aren't family values.

[Malva Zebrina]

3. You send Christian Missionaries there

has worked before,after all.

Anne Coulter said, you kill their leaders, and then convert the rest of them (the paeons) to Christianity, which, historically, is most supportive and necessary to support, corporatism.