03-10-2005, 01:11 PM
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Originally Posted by willravel
The problem is that we can't know for sure what the actual intentions were. We can only guess. I choose to guess one way, you choose to guess another. Neither of us are wrong or right until we know for sure. As Manx pointed out, the US leaving does not prove the imperialistic theory is wrong.
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I'm still not following this logic. If a mugger points a gun at me on the street, it's not a "guess" that he wants something of mine.
If I pass undisturbed, it's not a "guess" that he doesn't want anything from me. At least, he doesn't want anything very badly.
If the US willingly withdraws from an irreplaceable Pacific staging area like the Philippines, a reasonable person would not consider it a "guess" to say that the US is not engaging in "the policy of extending a nation's authority by territorial acquisition or by the establishment of economic and political hegemony over other nations."
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Until we sit down with the administration and decision makers responsible for the withdrawl and a lie detector, we can't be sure. The only way we can guess is to watch for patterns of behavior in America. We can watch and see how much control the US wants over resources and how much the US is willing to do to get it. What resource did the Phillipines represent? How would the investment of US control pay off in the long run? In my humble opinion, there would really be no pay off. While the Phillipino econemy is on the rise, it does not represent a major export that the US needs (unless you're like me and you love lumpia).
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Or you could believe the reports in which it was reported we were unwilling to pay the sums the Philippine government requested. |
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