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if what she says about suffering in India due to the WTO forcing imports onto them is true, then that is more important than her anti-american zeal. And since people around the world view the WTO as taking its marching orders from America, then in that context her prejudices against our country make some sense and we should re-consider this WTO strategy of globalism.

I'm pretty much against much of anything the WTO wants, but her points dismiss closer inspection, IMO. Same thing with NAFTA and its effect on Mexican farmers. Her own "project" is to real off her canned anti-American spiel, whatever the points about farms in India. What does that have to do with Iraq? What does she think about the mass price-fixing of OPEC that has deterred development of her own country?

Good point about the marching orders "appearing" to come from America - Europe is a bigger player. And Ms. Roy might take a look on the shelves of her own country to see who's profiting by tearing down trade walls, and dumping products there. Made in China, South Korea, Malaysia, - rice I suspect comes from Thailand and Vietnam. What she say about OPEC?

I just started to respond to this nonsense and lo and behold, it's Jones the Red.

Can't you see the inherent lie, the abiding nonsense of the statement "forcing imports onto them"?

Can't you understand that protectionism ALWAYS forces costs up and living standards down on BOTH sides of the bargain?

Don't you know that societies that try to provide goods and services to their populations at below the cost of production are lying to themselves, and wind up with populations with NOTHING but the bark of trees and grass to eat?

Do you think that the United States should back away from doing what is right and has proven to work and to provide decent living standards to millions- raising standsrds of health, education, water quality and so on, all over the world just because some leftist jackasses are propagandizing against us for thier own misguided purposes?

You note that Roy mentions Coachabamba. Look into that if you want to to find out wht the left considers a "victory". Ths was a privatised water project that would have brought clean, safe economical water to thousands. But since it was "private" it was the devil's work to these folks, and it was demonized, lied about, sabotaged, sued, and harassed into submission. So what does that prove? It certainly does not prove that privatization is evil. It certainly does prove that elitist leftist intellectuals still follow the Marxist/Leninist tenet of the end justifying the means. And the end is the dictatorship of the proletariat. The means is the demonization of the free market and liberty by callinbg it "empire" or "globalization". Make no mistake, these are the same Reds that gave us the gulags, forced abortion, reducation camps, and mass starvation. They are still full of the same old crap.

Which side are you on, Mr. Red?