Well Said
If you aren’t familiar with Matt at you should stop by and read him on a regular basis (unfortunately no RSS or Atom feed). Here’s a sample from his latest entry The Myth of American Goodness
Our rapacious need for cheap and abundant resources and cheaply manufactured goods motivated our foreign policy the last fifty years, not our sense of moral goodness. Free trade, after all, flourishes better under a totalitarian state than any other form of government. Democracy actually hurts free trade. All that goddamn debate and such is just bad for business. Dictators need not consult anyone or any body politic, especially the people, and so decisions are quick and clean and final. Free trade loves that kind of decisive rule. Just ask any economist. Therefore, when democratic movements sprung up in Third World countries where we propped up right-wing dictators, these dictator partners brutally quashed any and all opposition to their rule, mostly with American military aid and under the close supervision of the CIA. So let’s not kid ourselves firstly we really care to create democracies in the Third World, and secondly that we are as “good” as we like to imagine ourselves.
Well said Matt
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