tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20417751.post115907520172381618..comments2024-01-22T18:22:29.391-08:00Comments on hedera's corner: Presidential Readinghederahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01696592301686568456noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20417751.post-1159274539115109432006-09-26T05:42:00.000-07:002006-09-26T05:42:00.000-07:00I wish Chavez were more politically astute, less o...I wish Chavez were more politically astute, less of an incensed bull in a china shop, but I'm not sure such a personality would stand up to Team Bush and the history of poverty indifferent hegemonic US policies toward the rest of the "New World," Canada excepted, policies which have only occasionally shifted for brief periods, most recently under Clinton and before that under Carter.<BR/><BR/>I'm not sure there's any reason, however, to object to what Chavez said about Bush, particularly in light of Bush's failed attempt at a military overthrow of Chavez's democratically elected government, which I guess was, as much as anything, just a reflex American reaction to a Latin American government that challenged business interest exploitation of the resources of a country without any regard for the misery of the poor in said country or for the notion that said country had any right to determine the allocation of the wealth generated by said natural resource.<BR/><BR/>America's biggest problem is that <BR/>Chomsky's books are entirely too honest and accurate for our traditional "national interests." Sad, because our larger national interests lie not in the bottom line quarterly interests of exploitive business practices, but rather in the common weal of the inhabitants of the planet and the ecological wellbeing of the planet which they inhabit.<BR/><BR/>Short version: Team Bush represents the worst of what is bad about US foreign policy, and has, in fact, taken misguided, destructive foreign policies to dizzying new heights.<BR/><BR/>Anonymous DavidAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com