on 7/5/02 7:37 PM, Bill Ashline at bashline@hotmail.com wrote:
Now would actually be a good time for another Marshall plan--for Africa. The adjoining cultural imperialism that would and has already taken place would be a welcome price for getting the continent out of poverty and disease. It won't happen though. Africans simply aren't "white" enough.
Terribly true, and truly terrible. We will turn your country into a parking lot (in a display of might makes right), but we just lack the attention span to help turn your country into a nation full of all the things we're allegedly fighting to preserve and even distribute, like medicine, working currency, police, garbage collection, drivable roads, water filtration, a decent phone system. Or did I miss the opening of the Kuwait Galleria a few yrs back? skip h