[snowsislander]

ping

[CondorFlight]

''The concern is that there will be unintended consequences, that we loose contact, engagement, the opportunity to learn from them and teach them about the values and ideals and beliefs in democratic institutions,'' ''

Good heavens! Latin America still has to learn what democratic values are? And the only way for them to do this is to give them more billions?

Anybody else find this illogical?

If Latin America doesn't know or appreciate by now the values of the democratic west--the worth of the individual
over the state--then they'll never learn it; and they won't
come to appreciate those values--or us--just because we play sugar daddy to them.

[Quix]

I warned about this on FR years ago.

But, since everyone knows Quix is crazy, it carried little weight, of course.

[wideminded]

"The Monroe Doctrine, expressed in 1823, proclaimed that the Americas should be free from future European colonization and free from European interference in sovereign countries' affairs. It further stated the United States's intention to stay neutral in European wars and in wars between European powers and their colonies but to consider any new colonies or interference with independent countries in the Americas as hostile acts toward the United States. " - Wikipedia

[NormsRevenge]

He said that China needed to protect its access to food, energy, raw materials and export markets and this had forced a change in that country's military strategy, to promote ``a power-projection military, capable of securing strategic shipping lanes and protecting its growing economic interests abroad.''

And the PLA would like to personally thank the appeasionists of the Carter and Clinton administrations with helping this mess get to this point so rapidly..

[jayhorn]

You can't swing a dead cat around here without hitting a "China expert." And when you hit one, a silly cliche pops out. Freepin' amazing!