[lbo-talk] how's it feel?

Jim Farmelant farmelantj at juno.com
Tue Apr 15 17:29:07 PDT 2003


On Tue, 15 Apr 2003 20:14:19 EDT SergioL652 at aol.com writes:
> I feel disappointed. I came to the US 23 years ago thinking it was a
> more
> forward country than Puerto Rico.

Sergio,

Whatever made you think that, especially given the fact that Puerto Rico is an American colony?


>What do I get? Reagan, Bush,
> Clinton,
> Monica, the 2000 election, etc.

Well, before Reagan, we had Johnson, Nixon, Ford and Carter, that should have told you something.


>Through all, I never thought that
> this
> country could do something like this war.

Well, there was the Mexican War, the Spanish-American War plus the war to suppress Filipino nationalism, that followed. Not to speak of all the so-called Indian wars, which were really campaigns of genocide. Then in more recent times there was the Vietnam War. The Iraq war seems to be very much in character here.


> I am with Marta, I want
> to move to
> Europe or Canada.
>
> Sergio

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