On Mon, 2003-06-09 at 20:49, Paul Johnson wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Mon, Jun 09, 2003 at 09:40:00AM -0700, Deryk Barker wrote: > > > the Phillipines, Panama, Haiti, Japan, West Germany... > > > > I think others had hands in setting up Japan and (W) Germany at the > > end of WWII. > > And by anybody's account, The Phillipines, Panama and Haiti are > bananna republics.
The Philipines and Panama have been making good progress since their US sponsored dictators were overthrown by or with the encourage- ment of the US. The souther rebels are making it hard in the Phlipines, though. Haiti is a basket case and is probably hopeless. -- +-----------------------------------------------------------+ | Ron Johnson, Jr. Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson, LA USA http://members.cox.net/ron.l.johnson | | | | Regarding war zones: "There's nothing sacrosanct about a | | hotel with a bunch of journalists in it." | | Marine Lt. Gen. Bernard E. Trainor (Retired) | +-----------------------------------------------------------+ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]