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		<title>By: Upenyu</title>
		<link>http://www.kubatanablogs.net/kubatana/im-no-fan-of-bin-laden-but/#comment-203447</link>
		<dc:creator>Upenyu</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 May 2011 10:48:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[America is not the only super power and world leader. China’s economy is the world’s second largest and is predicted to overtake the US’ in the next decade, and China is actively increasing it&#039;s sphere&#039;s of influence in the world. France and the United Kingdom’s colonial histories guarantee those countries direct influence over their former colonies. At one time these combined constituted almost half of the earth’s total population. 
Before you point to America’s benevolence you must also take into account America’s similarly chequered history. Like America, those former colonial powers&#039; have economies that are built on forced labour and and unfair and unequal trade partnerships. They too saw themselves as the saviours of the savage natives who not only need their protection, but also their cultures and languages. But of course it’s not pc to call people savage natives anymore, and terms like democratisation, human rights and &#039;war on terror&#039; are used instead. America, whose means are different, but with the same goals cannot be imagined to be any different or any better. 

Outside of America, it is opposition politicians and not citizens who call for US intervention in their domestic politics. A case in point is the resistance by the Iraqi people to American occupation, and the recent mass demonstrations demanding that the US honours the troop withdrawal deal. US intervention in any nation does not come from an overwhelming sense of responsibility neither is it an act of christian charity, as you seem to think. It is an act of imperialism. In the instances where the US has instituted a change of government, the new regime is sometimes more repressive than the ones they replaced. Might I also add that the revolutions in the Maghreb were against American supported dictatorships. It is this support of repressive regimes, the blind eye turned toward countless human rights abuses, the continued existence of the Guantanamo bay detention prison, the bullying through tools such as the World Bank and the IMF, and in the above post, US invasion of Pakistan and the illegal operations within that country’s borders without the knowledge of Authority that constitutes American hypocrisy. Any such action by any other country in the United States would have been considered an act of war by the US government.  The Pakistani government is donor dependent, and as such has no choice but to remain silent and placating. 
And let’s not pretend that the billions given in donor funding to third world countries is altruistic either. It is not, it’s a form of political and economic manipulation to further and protect American interests regardless of what is in the best interests of the citizens of those countries.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>America is not the only super power and world leader. China’s economy is the world’s second largest and is predicted to overtake the US’ in the next decade, and China is actively increasing it&#8217;s sphere&#8217;s of influence in the world. France and the United Kingdom’s colonial histories guarantee those countries direct influence over their former colonies. At one time these combined constituted almost half of the earth’s total population.<br />
Before you point to America’s benevolence you must also take into account America’s similarly chequered history. Like America, those former colonial powers&#8217; have economies that are built on forced labour and and unfair and unequal trade partnerships. They too saw themselves as the saviours of the savage natives who not only need their protection, but also their cultures and languages. But of course it’s not pc to call people savage natives anymore, and terms like democratisation, human rights and &#8216;war on terror&#8217; are used instead. America, whose means are different, but with the same goals cannot be imagined to be any different or any better. </p>
<p>Outside of America, it is opposition politicians and not citizens who call for US intervention in their domestic politics. A case in point is the resistance by the Iraqi people to American occupation, and the recent mass demonstrations demanding that the US honours the troop withdrawal deal. US intervention in any nation does not come from an overwhelming sense of responsibility neither is it an act of christian charity, as you seem to think. It is an act of imperialism. In the instances where the US has instituted a change of government, the new regime is sometimes more repressive than the ones they replaced. Might I also add that the revolutions in the Maghreb were against American supported dictatorships. It is this support of repressive regimes, the blind eye turned toward countless human rights abuses, the continued existence of the Guantanamo bay detention prison, the bullying through tools such as the World Bank and the IMF, and in the above post, US invasion of Pakistan and the illegal operations within that country’s borders without the knowledge of Authority that constitutes American hypocrisy. Any such action by any other country in the United States would have been considered an act of war by the US government.  The Pakistani government is donor dependent, and as such has no choice but to remain silent and placating.<br />
And let’s not pretend that the billions given in donor funding to third world countries is altruistic either. It is not, it’s a form of political and economic manipulation to further and protect American interests regardless of what is in the best interests of the citizens of those countries.</p>
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		<title>By: mike</title>
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		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 May 2011 08:15:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[it&#039;s easy to sit back and be critical when your country isn&#039;t considered the only superpower and world leader.  Heavy lies the crown.  America, for it&#039;s faults, has worn the crown with more benevolence than most before it.  Hate them now..but I&#039;d rather they be in charge than Nazi Germany, Soviet Russia, or in the future when the Chinese Communists gain more power.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>it&#8217;s easy to sit back and be critical when your country isn&#8217;t considered the only superpower and world leader.  Heavy lies the crown.  America, for it&#8217;s faults, has worn the crown with more benevolence than most before it.  Hate them now..but I&#8217;d rather they be in charge than Nazi Germany, Soviet Russia, or in the future when the Chinese Communists gain more power.</p>
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