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To: gimmeone
That is why America is hated - she is not hated for her freedoms but for her tendency to be a 'two-faced' nation in diplomacy. To say one thing and do another. To hold one position at a point in time and then take the exact oppositte position later on.

I have to say that there is truth in this statement. I think alot of the reasons for this comes from the fact the the two major parties have completely different views on foreign policy and that it is next to impossible to maintain a consistent effort on an issue when our overall foreign policy is subject to change every few years. This gives the impression that the US has a schizophrenic foreign policy, which we do.

3 posted on 04/13/2008 10:09:49 AM PDT by frankiep (Democrats base their ideology on the premise that you are too stupid to do anything for yourself.)
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To: frankiep

Governments take positions that suit the times. Such is the way of the world. One must look at the overall progress toward a long range goal.


4 posted on 04/13/2008 10:17:44 AM PDT by Boblo
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To: frankiep
Well:
Yes and no.

If true, JWB would not continue "our" support of 'greater albania' and we would not be choosing between three possible candidates equally driven to amnesty for (mexican) illegal aliens. Elites follow elites and rarely their own interpretation of doctrine.

On the other hand; the 1944 citation addresses an entirely different subject than today's "my name and my name only" fiasco:

"The Greek section of Macedonia is largely inhabited by Greeks, and the Greek people are almost unanimously opposed to the creation of a Macedonian state."
...refers to a 'Greater Macedonia" made up of territory from a Slav 'Macedonia' and a Greek 'Macedonia'. It takes a stretch to claim that only one state can use the name Macedonia because the old subject might resurface - unless they are planning against a repeat of Kosova/Albania.

However:
If the Greeks win, and "Macedonia" has to change it's name to "Louise" or some such...
I demand that the state south of California USA be renamed to "West Cesspool", or "Baja del Norte", or simply "Theirs"..."Baja California" infringes on my ethnic rights.

10 posted on 04/13/2008 11:00:05 AM PDT by norton
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