From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Sep 28 1:25:15 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from robin.mail.pas.earthlink.net (robin.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.65]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4A0BC37B406 for ; Fri, 28 Sep 2001 01:25:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mindspring.com (dialup-209.245.138.226.Dial1.SanJose1.Level3.net [209.245.138.226]) by robin.mail.pas.earthlink.net (8.11.5/8.9.3) with ESMTP id f8S8Oxf24495; Fri, 28 Sep 2001 01:24:59 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <3BB4340C.5D02DAF7@mindspring.com> Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2001 01:25:48 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Reply-To: tlambert2@mindspring.com X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en]C-CCK-MCD {Sony} (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Rahul Siddharthan Cc: Technical Information , FreeBSD Chat Subject: Re: Another article, from the "other side" References: <4.3.2.7.2.20010924191808.0227cf28@threespace.com> <3BAFD532.6ED7A320@duth.gr> <4.3.2.7.2.20010926015428.01814630@threespace.com> <20010926125046.C1370@lpt.ens.fr> <20010926070519.A30531@blackhelicopters.org> <20010926132021.E1370@lpt.ens.fr> <20010926072915.A30655@blackhelicopters.org> <4.3.2.7.2.20010927003714.01819658@threespace.com> <200109271345.f8RDjn116287@dungeon.home> <4.3.2.7.2.20010927100849.017f9938@threespace.com> <20010927171312.C56631@lpt.ens.fr> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Rahul Siddharthan wrote: > The more cynical would say that the US gives assistance to foreign > countries to gain more control over them; I've read such accusations > of the US policy towards Israel, among others -- ie, "if you don't > obey us, we'll cut off the funding".) That's funny. The most common criticism I keep hearing from the people who say that U.S. foreign policy sucks is that the U.S. permits Israel too much control, and that it is their lobby that results in unwarranted amounts of funds being sent in support of them. I think the argument is inane: if the attack was the act of people trying to sway U.S. foreign policy, then they have most certainly failed. If nothing else, we will redouble our "meddling" as a means of flipping them off. -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message