From: vaitkus@ceres.lexmark.com (Keith Vaitkus)
Subject: Re: Gloat
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Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 15:51:06 GMT


[Various inflamatory comments deleted..]

>-- 
> Michael Le Houllier           *  John 3:16  * Nov 12, 1991 - Dili      
> (m_lehoul@oz.plymouth.edu.us) *  Remember: June 4, 1989 - Beijing
> GO BLUE JAYS!!!   BEAT THE BRAVES!!!!
> ANNOY THE MEDIA.  RE-ELECT BUSH!!


Your sig reminds me of an inconsistency that I noted quite a while
ago. Perhaps you should have sent the line "Remember: June 4, 1989 
-Beijing" TO President Bush, and not to us. After all, he was the
President that prevented the (much maligned Democratic) Congress from
"Remembering" the Democratic movement in China and punishing China.
As I remember, Mr. "Foreign Policy God" Bush basically said that 
China was to strong, leave her alone, let's pick on someone we can
actually beat... Like Panama, or Iraq. In other words, Bush DID
NOTHING!

It was these "lapses" of 
convictions, of values, that lost my respect for this President.
He rants and raves bnout what a righteous citizen he is, and how
he supports ALL democracies, but his actual policies contradict these
proclamations at almost every turn.

This is a large issue to me, in which the US does not use its 
military force with any consistent pattern or even follow any
sort of obvious convictions or values. (Unless your value might
be -- to pursue profits for American multi-national corporations...
ie, where's the oil! where's an economy we can exploit! etc.) 

Is it that we just don't care? Or are we so unimaginably ignorant
of history and world politics... George Bush proclamed a "New
World Order" but he failed miserably in providing leadership to
start such a thing. And yet he stil has a reputation for being a
good leader? I don't get it?

Where was he when Liberia begged for US intervention to prevent
a Civil war? (Liberia was created by freed US slaves...) He pulled
out US civilians, ordered a ship of marines to wait off the coast,
and then, shifted all attention away to focus on WAR in Iraq...
What did he do to help democracy? HE DID NOTHING!
Liberia is still at war today... And back in the news.

Where was he in Yugoslavia? Where was he in Sumalia? Does the
"New world order" not apply to starvation? Where was he when
the Kurds DID EXACTLY WHAT HE ASKED THEM TO DO? When they 
revolted -- Bush balked.

*sigh* I'm starting to get angry...

I guess my bottom line is that all US citizens, regardless of
party, should get together and decide on a coherent, consistent
approach to foreign policy. AND we should be more aware, as
citizens, of the actions, and inactionsm that are committed in
our name by our elected government...

Flames are nice -- but we really ought to grow up as a society and
take more responsibility for our actions. Partisan politics really
have nothing to do with this... It isn't what Democrats and Republicans
do that matters -- What matters is what the USA does. We are ONE
country. ONE people. And maybe, ONE day, we will act like it.



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