An analysis piece by Michael Barone. Oh, joy! One time, in the early 80’s, Mr. Barone was traveling to Latin America so he went to the book store to learn about the area. Instead of getting what he expected, he discovered that the United States had been dicking over the people of Latin America for over a hundred years. Taking their land, extracting their resources, propping up and toppling their governments. This was unacceptable. Who could write such things about America?
Why, Marxists, that’s who. No, not historians. No patriotic historian would record history in such a way. Anyway, apparently Barack Obama is one of these Marxists, and that explains why he pulled the long-range missile defense program in Eastern Europe, has doubts about escalating our forces in Afghanistan, and is telling the Israelis to chill with the expansion of settlements on Palestinian land. It’s all so logical.
“michael barone” is to “analysis” as “dog food” is to “ben and jerry’s”.
that’s all i have to say
why do you hate dog food?
i guess it’s an imperfect metaphor.
dog food has its purpose, but not as an ice cream flavor.
the difference is thatthere’s no purpose for michael barone, he’s just a moron.
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“In the early 1980s, while planning a vacation in Latin America, I went to bookstores to find histories of the region. All I could find were Marxist tracts arguing that “the people” were exploited by greedy corporations and military dictators, all propped up by the United States.”
I imagine Barone missed Ambassador Robert White‘s account of U.S. friends in El Salvador, Nicaragua, Honduras, Haiti, …
"But I will not let myself be reduced to silence."By Good Christians, I presume.
That’s why you get the big money, BooMan. Few of us have the patience to read this stuff.
I loved this bit:
One word: Iraq.
Where our occupation has caused the deaths of over a million people and displaced a quarter of the surviving population, and every opinion poll since 2004 has shown supermajorities of Iraqis wanting us out.
How quickly we forget…
I helped make Mexico, especially Tampico, safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in. I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefits of Wall Street. The record of racketeering is long. I helped purify Nicaragua for the international banking house of Brown Brothers in 1909-1912 (where have I heard that name before?). I brought light to the Dominican Republic for American sugar interests in 1916. In China I helped to see to it that Standard Oil went its way unmolested. During those years, I had, as the boys in the back room would say, a swell racket. Looking back on it, I feel that I could have given Al Capone a few hints. The best he could do was to operate his racket in three districts. I operated on three continents.