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27. You realize that this "choice" is no accident -- in fact, it is by design.

Fri Oct 24, 2014, 11:26 AM

Oct 2014

You have practically (albeit inadvertently) described the imperialist formula.

1. Set up a "brutal dictatorship" (and his family) with wealth and arms to keep the locals in line.

2. Keep him on the payroll with CIA.

3. Send in the oil companies.

4. Extract oil.

5. Rinse and repeat.

What would be hilarious is that your perspective is almost as if the problem is with these colonized peoples, as if they are too uncivilized to do any better.

But it isn't hilarious, that perspective is actually horrifying.

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