I'd like to teach the world to peace and bomb it into love killing all the bad guys we hate drones dropping from above makes us nice jobs at home and furnishes troops with bombs!
Mark Twain, The Greatest American Humorist, Returning Home, New York World [London, 10/6/1900]
"You ask me about what is called imperialism. Well, I have formed views about that question. I am at the disadvantage of not knowing whether our people are for or against spreading themselves over the face of the globe. I should be sorry if they are, for I don't think that it is wise or a necessary development. As to China, I quite approve of our Government's action in getting free of that complication. They are withdrawing, I understand, having done what they wanted. That is quite right. We have no more business in China than in any other country that is not ours. There is the case of the Philippines. I have tried hard, and yet I cannot for the life of me comprehend how we got into that mess. Perhaps we could not have avoided it -- perhaps it was inevitable that we should come to be fighting the natives of those islands -- but I cannot understand it, and have never been able to get at the bottom of
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So the Ferdinand Marcos dictatorship we imposed on the Filipinos is the US ideal? Huh? Like South Korea they did not get freedom because of us, they did it by telling us to go fuck ourselves and choosing the leadership they wanted, not the one that Ronald Ray Gun felt was 'freedom.' I suppose if Marcos had had his regime raping nuns and thus earned the title of moral equivalent of our Founding Fathers that he might have survived, but he was just a thief type of dictator, not a rapist and butchering terrorist leader.
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and bomb it into love
killing all the bad guys we hate
drones dropping from above
makes us nice jobs at home
and furnishes troops with bombs!
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But, alas, it was parody:
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Mark Twain, The Greatest American Humorist, Returning Home, New York World [London, 10/6/1900]
"You ask me about what is called imperialism. Well, I have formed views about that question. I am at the disadvantage of not knowing whether our people are for or against spreading themselves over the face of the globe. I should be sorry if they are, for I don't think that it is wise or a necessary development. As to China, I quite approve of our Government's action in getting free of that complication. They are withdrawing, I understand, having done what they wanted. That is quite right. We have no more business in China than in any other country that is not ours. There is the case of the Philippines. I have tried hard, and yet I cannot for the life of me comprehend how we got into that mess. Perhaps we could not have avoided it -- perhaps it was inevitable that we should come to be fighting the natives of those islands -- but I cannot understand it, and have never been able to get at the bottom of ( ... )
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