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[johnny9fingers]

Now when Bill Clinton was impeached, apparently it wasn't over whether he'd spunked over an intern's dress, it was because he had lied about it.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/7105001.stm

I await to see what will happen now after this testimony.
Kenneth Starr, where are you? Surely this should matter at least as much, especially as we're talking of folk involved in something illegal (naming a CIA agent) not just of dubious morality (infidelity, for a given value thereof).

You know something, American hypocrisy about this sort of stuff is going to lose you chaps lots of friends. Either you're consistent about what matters, or you will be looked at as something pretty similar to the Nation states that your administration goes around denouncing.

You can arraign one president for being economical with the truth.
You will not do something about a president and administration that behaves much much worse by your own standards.

And yet you criticise other countries in the hope that they'll change their ways and adopt your system: well from the outside, your present government seems as criminal as that of South Korea, Iran, Zimbabwe....

This isn't a good thing, but I don't expect anyone to deal with it.

 

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[johnny9fingers.livejournal.com]

Nah, we screwed the Pooch over India/Pakistan. Admittedly under pressure from the US to divest ourselves of our Empire (look it up), we withdrew prematurely, allowing India to be partitioned, rather than federated. Palestine too....hasn't been good, but that could be because of the US vested interest in Israel. Kenya. Kenya. Zimbabwe.
The list is endless.
Zimbabwe 'worked' under Ian Smith: it was the breadbasket of Africa. The climate has changed somewhat, but now it cannot feed itself. From a practical position, de-colonisation has merely spread misery and starvation. Either we withdrew without safeguarding and securing proper government, or whatever safeguards we put in place were easily circumvented by corrupt and greedy politicians. Mugabwe went mad, from what I can work out, and now his people starve. And that happened in Uganda too.
The Congo, Central African Republic, and Rwanda are French and Belgian problems, but the C20th relicts of Britain's Empire in Africa and Asia haven't done us proud.
Australia, Canada, New Zealand, yeah, they work.
I just pray South Africa doesn't go the same way as Zimbabwe.