> I am completely lost and my requests for info from the Department of
> Foreign affairs and Trade have been fruitless. HELP!
Doug and Dwayne have provided some good explanation of the American worlview in a nutshell, but if your students are looking for something meatier, I suggest giving them a list of Noam Chomsky books. When I was a unversity student in the mid-80s, I picked up Chomsky's two volume set titled "Turning the Tide," which covered U.S. foreign policy in Central America and the Caribbean. In those tomes I learned that American foreign policy was driven by a simple rule: what's good for American business is good for American foreign policy. This was one of several things that radicalized me and turned me from a Young Democrat into an anarchist.
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