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Originally Posted by Botnst
Hell yeah there were heavy-handed tactics. It started with Teddy Roosevelt engineering a "revolution" to establish a nation called, Panama, which immediately ceded a significant portion fo it's sovereign territory to (guess who) the USA on a 99 year lease. If that ain't shady, ain't nuthin' shady. Then there's the various coups we've engineered in several latin American countires every decade since. Both major parties were equal-opportunity belligerents, so don't try to hide behind the "it was them!" BS. It was the USA--your mammy and pappy and mine.
So what? Should I thrash myself with a cat-'o'-nine? Beg forgiveness from camposinos? I know, I'll acknowledge our mis-deeds and swear (but NOT on a Bible) to never do it again.
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Ain't it past your bedtime? It's late here, a few time zones to the west.
Maybe a recognition that we aren't the benevolently wise Uncle Sam people get all teary eyed about would be a good start.
I'd like to see the thang that Franklin, Jefferson, et. al. started endure for 1,000 or more years. To do that, some fine tuning will be required. As it is now, we're looking like a high tech repeat of Rome, maybe Brittania. If we were as all wise and just as you'd like to believe, we'd be more popular with the rest of the world. Oh they hate freedom all right, the freedom we take with their resources.
Said it before -- we got the powerful Caesar thing down....need to work on the wise Caesar bit....