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>"You wanted to help countries so they wouldn't turn commie, not because you actually cared. "
Yeah, so? I didn't see any of those countries being too proud to take our money, did you? Motivation's largely irrelevant when you're living in a bombed-out shell.
And incidentally, WHOSE fault do you think it was for those post-WWI conditions, anyway? Not OURS. WE wanted to go easier on the Germans, but NOOOOOOO, they had to go and create humiliating conditions that were practically GUARANTEED to lead to a new war.
------------------ The government that seems the most unwise, oft goodness to the people best supplies. That which is meddling, touching everything, will work but ill, and disappointment bring. - The Tao Te Ching
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I'll be the first to say that Wilson was full of great ideas, and, IMHO, FDR was a pretty smart guy too.
Of course, it's a fairly well-accepted historical theory that the Marshall plan combined with the American's development of the Atomic Bomb without notifying the Soviets drove Stalin into a nearly-paranoid defensive mentality that a rebuilt Germany backed by the US would invade the Soviet Union for the third time in a half-century. And hence the drive to annex "buffer" states in Eastern Europe and erect the Iron Curtain.
I'm not saying that the Marshall Plan was a bad idea or that Stalin was justified in doing what he did. I'm just saying that the Marshall Plan mightn't have been all rainbows and Christmas Trees.
It was American aid money during the Cold War that caused most the problems, however... Africa, the Middle East, Southeast Asia. Just because corrupt dictator "A" is willing to take American money to fight evil populist rebel leader "B" and the Americans are willing to give it to them doesn't mean that it's the right thing to do...
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I'm gonna use a jungle metaphor here. Whenever the elephants moves, he's bound to knock over a few monkeys, but if the elephant kept his ass in one place more often instead of knocking over everyone, the animals wouldn't be as mad at him. And although none of the other animals can take him one on one, if he enrages them enough they won't hesitate to gang up on him.
I think I've made my oppinion clear here, thank you. Next!
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I just came up with a stroke of marketing genius. I will make a energy drink and call it "Whoopass" You know what's the best part though? >>>>>>>> It will come in CANS!!!!
BTW, that jungle thing is a bit interesting... In those conditions, it wouldn't be long before the elephant was sitting in a huge pile of his own shit. What does that do to your analogy? *L*
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In fact, the can of whoopass was one of the basis for the Powerpuff Girls, who, originally, were called the "Whoopass Girls". but, for some crazy gay and communist reason, their origin was tweaked, and their name was changed. Tsk.
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Ah, a Jones product. That's where I came across it before. But $40 frigging bucks for 24 tiny cans? WTF?
(for the record, Fufuberry Soda, despite the Barbie 'n Skipper name, is quite the shit. Yay Urban Juice and Soda Co.!)
But I digress back to the original-original topic at hand. It would appear that at least one well-respected NGO seems to think that US's being passed over for other Western nations was on the HRC was no fluke. (Story).
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