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Originally Posted by roachboy
its all part of the neocolonialism show.
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Neocolonialism or a reassertion of the Monroe Doctrine, which seems to happen about every 15 or 20 years. Let's see, Panama was about 1990, so we're due.
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Originally Posted by smooth
Detroit wasn't closed down by Italian police, however.
Are you not catching that he is emphasizing the foreign police element?
Or does it not matter to you? Or...?
Because it sounds from your post that it wouldn't matter to you who is doing the policing, whereas for him it's a different context when one's own police are doing the policing. Yet, when it's a foreign police force, it feels like one's sovereignty is being usurped. Very frustrating.
On top of that, "a post-9/11 world" is a US construct. The rest of the developed world has already been acutely aware of modern terrorism for decades. We've been slow to the table, but certainly latin america and the Pope aren't acting all differently now that "9/11" happened. That point seems really unaware of things that have been happening in and around those countries for a very long time?
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I'm not ignoring the foriegn element, I'm just not assigning as much importance to it as you apparently are. Whenever any foreign leader visits anywhere, their security detail is in charge. That's the case here and everywhere else. Local authorities cooperate. That's the way diplomatic security works and is the reason why I was interviewed by British authorities a couple of years ago. I coached their consul's kids in fencing. The Americans never paid me a visit.