Diuretic
Permanently confused
GunnyL said:I can tell you are going to require some work.
I'm learning, I'm learning - there's plenty of material here for me, I reckon I could work up to Bigot Class 1 with a bit of time here
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GunnyL said:I can tell you are going to require some work.
Naw, we have much higher aspirations for you than that!Diuretic said:I'm learning, I'm learning - there's plenty of material here for me, I reckon I could work up to Bigot Class 1 with a bit of time here
Diuretic said:I'm learning, I'm learning - there's plenty of material here for me, I reckon I could work up to Bigot Class 1 with a bit of time here
The news from Bolivia - a country that is nationalizing, or, if you prefer, stealing, foreign-owned assets - is just the latest in a string of anti-capitalist, anti-American developments in South America. In recent years, Venezuela, Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay and Chile have all elected left-leaning governments, determined to reverse "globalization" and thwart American influence. And similar governments are likely to win soon in Peru and Mexico.
In particular, the oil-empowered Venezuelan leader Hugo Chávez, an avowed fan of Cuba's Fidel Castro, is emerging as a genuine U.S. enemy. Americans, of course, have been mostly preoccupied with the Middle East, but the problems to our south - trade, energy, immigration, narcotics trafficking - are likely to worsen as North-South cooperation worsens.
And one of these days a Latin country will emerge as a serious military power, thus ending America's fortuitous two-century-long monopoly of force in this hemisphere.