On Mon, 2003-06-09 at 20:49, Paul Johnson wrote:
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> On Mon, Jun 09, 2003 at 09:40:00AM -0700, Deryk Barker wrote:
> > > the Phillipines, Panama, Haiti, Japan, West Germany...
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> > I think others had hands in setting up Japan and (W) Germany at the
> > end of WWII.
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> 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.

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