On Sun, 14 Nov 2004 04:31 pm, tommyknocker posted to
rec.radio.shortwave: %MM

pulse wrote:

And all this should remove any shadow of a doubt from the world mind that
the US is totally incapable of minding its own business.

Read up on the coups the US created in the Third World in the 50s to
keep nations from "falling to the Communists". Especially where the US
overthrew the democratically elected government of Guatemala in 1954 in
order to install a right wing dictatorship that would be more
accomodating to United Fruit Company.

The US turn over of Vietnam to the French after WW2 played right into the
communist hands. The ridiculous pillage post-Spanish domination of Cuba
was like exchanging one thug for another. Castro isn't exactly my cup of
tea, but neither are the loony "exiles" in Florida. We also had Pinochet
in Chile, the Shah regime handed over from the British and supported by the
US, and presently the prop-up of the fascist Saudi regime; all in the
interest of making a buck. I saw a list somewhere of "intervention" by the
US militarily, it was around 150 times during the period the Soviets did it
8 times. 735 military bases around the world must help as jumping off
points for this sort of "adventure". I'm sure the 19th century Brits and
French in the Great Game would have understood the present adventures well.

"Capitalism and communism are both the ******* children of Christianity",
(Jostein Gaarder). None show the way to heaven, on earth, nor anywhere
else. if we could get it through our and our leaders' thick stupid head
that all people want is to have a decent life, we wouldn't breed nitwits
who want to screw everyone economically or by shoving their narrow-minded
doctrine down our throats with the barrel of a gun or with the blast of a
bomb from 30 thousand feet or in a rusted out car.

I wonder how long
it will be before some other countries start their own "ad campaigns"
aimed at educating the sheep-like mind of the average American that,
regardless of what their government tells them, there is a real world
outside its borders with real people and real issues of their own.

If such a campaign starts, I'll be there to log it, and I'm sure some of
you will try to QSL it. If France airdrops radios on the US, I'll
grab one and see what it has to say.