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[JF Mezei]

Doug Phillips wrote:

> I get real tired of hearing "why doesn't the US do something about
> that" on one hand, and "curse the US for doing that" on the other, and
> I don't think I'm alone.


One forgets that when countries have interests in foreign soil, their
foreign policy is adjusted accordingly.  If EXXON has massive
investments in country A but none in country B, odds are that if there
is trouble in coutry A, the USA will intervene, but won't intervene in
country B.  Same applies to other western nations such as France,
Germany, England etc who have corporations invested in other countries.


One problem is that the USA tends to ignore the UN, or worse, use its
veto to prevent the UN from doing its job.  Even under Clinton, the USA
ignored the UN efforts in the balkans and continued to send arms to one
faction despite a UN embargo on all arms shipments. The USA even
insisted on a resolution preventing UN troups there from using their
weapons to protect themselves and impose peace. Of course, once clinton
finally sent in USA troups, those troups were not bound to the "do not
use firearms" resolution the USA had insisted be imposed on UN troups.

And then the USA claimed the UN troups had been incapable and ineffective.