--- Yoshie Furuhashi <furuhashi.1 at osu.edu> wrote:
>The US power elite, unlike men who presided over the
creation of the
British Empire, have never been interested in
developing settler
colonies (of which North America was once a shining
example), so
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I wasn't thinking of the Colonies. I was thinking if places like India, which the British Empire developed. Or Eastern European Warsaw Pact countries, into which the USSR poured funds (including food when there was famine in the USSR).
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it is occupying Iraq only so as to set up a new pro-Washington Iraqi regime
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How would such a regime be viable without stabilization of Iraq? How will it function with bombs going off and officials getting assassinated all the time?
Nu, zayats, pogodi!
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