He lost me with Chile. Just fucking lost me. Latin America is a fricking trace paper version of Africa, except it was mostly America doing the carving up and propping up of puppets. And he can't even say:
"I'm sorry on the behalf of the American people for our governments former policy of destabilizing you continually in order to exploit your natural resources. I hope you accept this apology and move forward with me into a time where each nation in Latin America is treated as an equal to the United States of America and the rest of the world, in terms of needs and desires and goals for its people. The slow down of the global economy has proven we are all interconnected and the time for isolationist and expansionist thinking is long in the past."
Really? He can't say that?
An apology? No one's effing ask him for reparations, but an apology for Noriega and the Iran-Contra dealings and the Bananna Republic, overthrows so American companies could further their dealings (it's not just Iran and Iraq folks. There be history here).
Not a I'm sorry the CIA has been undermining your ability to govern yourselves as recently as this decade?
Fuck, America elected a kinder, gentler Bush. Who 'happens to be brown'.
My mother pointed out in late Feb, March that the man's hair was going prematurely grey right quick. She thought it was the stress of trying to lead the nation. I now have other theories.
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Date: 2009-06-24 09:31 pm (UTC)He lost me with Chile. Just fucking lost me. Latin America is a fricking trace paper version of Africa, except it was mostly America doing the carving up and propping up of puppets. And he can't even say:
Really? He can't say that?
An apology? No one's effing ask him for reparations, but an apology for Noriega and the Iran-Contra dealings and the Bananna Republic, overthrows so American companies could further their dealings (it's not just Iran and Iraq folks. There be history here).
Not a I'm sorry the CIA has been undermining your ability to govern yourselves as recently as this decade?
Fuck, America elected a kinder, gentler Bush. Who 'happens to be brown'.
My mother pointed out in late Feb, March that the man's hair was going prematurely grey right quick. She thought it was the stress of trying to lead the nation. I now have other theories.