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"In strict confidence
...I should welcome almost any war, for I think this country needs
one."
Theodore Roosevelt, American president
from1901-1909
Books
" We have about 50% of
the world's wealth, but only 6.3% of the world's population...
Our real task in the coming period is ... to maintain this positon
of disparity ... "
George Kennan, head of US State
Deparatment Policy Planning Staff, 1946
Articles
"The fundamental assumption
that the United States retains the right and obligation to intervene
in the Third World in any way it ultimately deems necessary, including
military, remains an article of faith among the people who guide
both political parties."
Confronting the Third World, p296
*****
"We live constantly with
the tensions and costs of the United States' aggressive foreign
policy, which not only affects profoundly the likelihood of war
or peace throughout the world but also imposes monumental constraints
on urgently needed social and economic changes in the Third World
today."
Confronting the Third World, p298
*****
"A brutally repressive
regime was essential to America's interests because there was
no civilian political option for it to turn to, and Washington
had no hesitation in immediately endorsing the new order and aiding
it, revealing again its two-decades-long preference for dictators
and repressive regimes in the hemisphere. Chile also proved once
more that the United States could never gracefully accept the
verdict of democratic politics in any nation, where anti-Yankee
sentiment was overwhelming for fear of seeing not only its local
investments lost but also encouraging anti-United States economic
legislation elsewhere in the hemisphere."
Confronting the Third World, p221
Authors
" On November 1, the General
Assembly of the United Nations voted to reaffirm the Outer Space
Treaty-the fundamental international law that establishes that
space should be reserved for peaceful uses... Only two nations
declined to support this bill-the United States and Israel. "
The Progressive magazine
*****
" Fewer and fewer members
of Congress today have any real interest in national security
issues..."
Senator John McCain October 1999
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