Letters to the Editor

• We Bomb 'em Sometimes, too

  One of the things that depresses me so much about the United States is that our government runs to the aid of places like Kuwait (which isn't even a democracy) or goes to war in Iraq because they have oil, but when it comes to mass genocide and anarchy in African countries (Rwanda, Sudan, Somalia, Congo) we stand by as a country and do nothing other than offer platitudes, vacant threats, and ask for public donations.

  --anonymous

  If we'd adapt foreign policy to ACTUALLY attempt to "spread democracy" and promote human rights world-wide, we could probably accomplish a great deal, improving both the lives of the other lands we'd choose to help as well as the lives of Americans involved in the effort.

  There's just no interest in either democracy or human rights amongst the corporate overlords and their lackeys, our officials.

  I suppose the cynically-minded would suggest there's not much interest amongst the majority of the American public, either.

  -- blunderdog
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  Permalink Wednesday, November 21, 2007 02:46 PM